Power play the Bush presidency and the Constitution /

Main Author: Pfiffner, James P.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10338474
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300 |a xiv, 299 p. 
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505 0 |a 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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