Power and constraint, the accountable presidency after 9/11, Jack Goldsmith
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Power and constraint, the accountable presidency after 9/11, Jack Goldsmith
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-300) and index
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Power and constraint
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bibliography
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738350092
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Jack Goldsmith
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the accountable presidency after 9/11
Summary
Conventional wisdom holds that 9/11 sounded the death knell for presidential accountability. In fact, the opposite is true. The novel powers that our post-9/11 commanders in chief assumed--endless detentions, military commissions, state secrets, broad surveillance, and more--are the culmination of a two-century expansion of presidential authority. But these new powers have been met with thousands of barely visible legal and political constraints--enforced by congressional committees, government lawyers, courts, and the media--that have transformed our unprecedentedly powerful presidency into one that is also unprecedentedly accountable. These constraints are the key to understanding why Obama continued the Bush counterterrorism program, and in this light, the events of the last decade should be seen as a victory, not a failure, of American constitutional government. We have actually preserved the framers' original idea of a balanced constitution, despite the vast increase in presidential power made necessary by this age of permanent emergency.--Publisher description
Table Of Contents
Checks and balances in an endless war -- Continuity: The new normal -- Forces bigger than the president -- Distributed checks and balances: Accountability journalism -- Spies under a government microscope -- Warrior-lawyers -- The GTMO bar -- Assessment: The presidential synopticon -- After the next attack
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- Executive power
- Executive power -- United States -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Executive Branch
- Förenta staterna -- politik och förvaltning -- 2000-talet
- History
- Separation of powers -- United States -- History
- Presidents -- United States -- History
- 2000-2099
- Separation of powers
- United States
- Presidents
- Separation of powers -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Presidents -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Executive power -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Presidenter -- Förenta staterna -- 2000-talet
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- Executive power
- Executive power -- United States -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Executive Branch
- Förenta staterna -- politik och förvaltning -- 2000-talet
- History
- Separation of powers -- United States -- History
- Presidents -- United States -- History
- 2000-2099
- Separation of powers
- United States
- Presidents
- Separation of powers -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Presidents -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Executive power -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Presidenter -- Förenta staterna -- 2000-talet
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