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"Analyzes the Bush presidency's efforts to expand executive power, putting them into constitutional and historical perspective. Explores the evolution of Anglo-American thinking about executive power and individual rights. Documents how the current administration has undermined the separation of powers and shows how these practices have imperiled the rule of law"--Provided by publisher.
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Power play: the Bush presidency and the Constitution
2009, Brookings Institution Press
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081570335X 9780815703358
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Power Play: The Bush Presidency and the Constitution
2009, Brookings Institution Press
in English
0815701527 9780815701521
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Table of Contents
A government of laws or men?
The nature of executive power
Creating individual rights and an independent legislature
The American Constitution
The power to imprison : habeas corpus
The power to torture
The power to surveil
The power to ignore the law : signing statements
Conclusion: Constitutionalism and the rule of law.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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