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Overcoming necessity : emergency, constraint, and the meanings of American constitutionalism / Thoma...

Overcoming necessity : emergency, constraint, and the m...

Overcoming necessity : emergency, constraint, and the meanings of American constitutionalism / Thoma...

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Overcoming necessity : emergency, constraint, and the meanings of American constitutionalism / Thomas P. Crocker.

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Full title

Overcoming necessity : emergency, constraint, and the meanings of American constitutionalism / Thomas P. Crocker.

Publisher

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]

Call Numbers

G 2021/2815

Record Identifier

74VKarMG0axb

MMS ID

991024441622202626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

x, 332 pages ; 25 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Publication information

Publisher

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]

Place of Publication

Connecticut

Date Published

[2020]

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

"This book is rooted in the post-9/11 debate over the scope of the president's authority to react to perceived emergency. One side argues for unbounded and unilateral executive authority, and the other a recommitment to rights, subject to circumstantial limits. Almost all sides converge on some variation of the idea that during emergencies the laws...

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Full title

Overcoming necessity : emergency, constraint, and the meanings of American constitutionalism / Thomas P. Crocker.

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

©2020

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2021/2815

Record Identifier

74VKarMG0axb

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKarMG0axb

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ISBN

0300181612

9780300181616

DDC

342.73062

MMS ID

991024441622202626

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