Imbalance of powers : constitutional interpretation and the making of American foreign policy / Gordon Silverstein.
1997
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Title
Imbalance of powers : constitutional interpretation and the making of American foreign policy / Gordon Silverstein.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Call Number
KF4651 .S72 1997
ISBN
0195104773 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195104765 (alk. paper)
0195104765 (alk. paper)
Description
xi, 276 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)33404415
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
I
Introduction
3
II
Constitutional Interpretation and Foreign Policy: The Traditional Interpretation
1The Traditional Interpretation in Court
21
2The Executive and the Traditional Interpretation
43
III
A New Interpretation Evolves: Executive Prerogative in Foreign Policy
3Congress, the Executive, and the Emergence of Prerogative Power in Foreign Policy
65
4Johnson, Nixon, and the Assertion of Executive Prerogative
83
5Lending Legitimacy to the Prerogative Interpretation: Prerogative Power in Court
101
IV
Why Statutes Don't Work: Congress Strikes Back, and Makes It Worse
6The Legislative Response: Legal Solutions to Political Problems
123
7The Legislative Response: Building Foreign Policy on the War Powers Model
139
V
Political Solutions to a Political Problem: Incentives to Rebalance Power
8Why the Courts Won't Save Congress Overseas - Or at Home
171
9Incentives to Rebalance Power
191
VI
Conclusion
213
Notes
225
References ad Bibliography
255
Index
271