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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"War powers."”.
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War powers of the Executive in the United States
… checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) warpowersofexecu00berd_0.pdf: 35820390 bytes, checksum: 92673e0a68f24767e26f7dda96e412b0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1920
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The War Powers Resolution: Reassessing the Constitutional Balance of Power
This thesis is an analysis of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and the impact it held on the role of Congress and the President in entering war. More specifically, this thesis takes a look at President Richard M. Nixon’s influence on the 93rd Congress’s decision to pass the War Powers Resolution …
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U.S. Senate Deliberations on the War Powers Resolution during the Bush and Obama Administrations
… and geopolitical disaster of the Vietnam War, and the process that took the United States into such a large-scale and protracted conflict, led Congress to reinforce its checks on executive war powers. The resulting War Powers Resolution (WPR) sought to inject Congress back into the …
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Judgment on the sword : the US Supreme Court's jurisprudence on presidential war powers.
… US Supreme Court's jurisprudence on presidential war powers from the early republic to the present. It argues that the Court's jurisprudence has generally defended both a broad presidential power to prosecute war as well as a strong judicial power to enforce constitutional limits on the executive. …
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The gulf between congress and the president over war powers: An analysis of the Persian Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War of 1991 highlighted the gulf between the executive and legislative branches over the extent of the president's constitutional and practical war powers. President Bush appealed to his constitutional designation as commander-in-chief, among other things, as well as U.N. …
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The Expanding Rol of the President as Commander-In-Chief Since World War II
… between the president and the Congress over war-making roles, the president's Commander-in-Chief role has expanded significantly since World War II. This study examines expansion of presidential power in terms of the establishment of the United States as a world economic and political power …
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Lincoln's Conservatives: Conservative Unionism and Political Tradition in the Civil War Era
… conservatives in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet--Edward Bates, Montgomery Blair, Salmon P. Chase, and Gideon Welles--as exemplars of nineteenth-century political thought, this study examines the formation of American conservatism in the Civil War era from an anthropological perspective, treating it …
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Two paths to command: command systems of the Union and the Confederacy, 1861-1865
… the Confederacy as they evolved during the Civil War in part explains why the war was fought the way it was and why it lasted four years. Both nations began the war with national command systems which were ill-equipped to control the huge armies which eventually were formed. Ultimately, after …
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The Politics of Emergencies: War, Security and the Boundaries of the Exception in Modern Emergency Powers
… the legitimate ends of exceptional, emergency powers defined? How do the background conceptions that define an "emergency" also shape the political dynamics of emergency powers? As I argued in chapter one, these questions push beyond the two predominant approaches in the contemporary …