- Introduction
- 1. Presidential Power and Constitutionalism
- Constitutionalism and Executive Power
- Dynamic Variables in Emergency Constitutionalism
- Emergencies and Constitutional Perspectives
- 2. Presidents and Constitutionalism
- President Lincoln: “Popular demand and public necessity”
- President Wilson: “if there should be disloyalty, it will be dealt with with a firm hand of stern repression”
- President Roosevelt: “every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage”
- President Truman: “Within the aggregate of his constitutional powers”
- 3. President Bush and Constitutionalism
- Torture
- Surveillance
- Detention
- Conclusion: A Call for Executive Constitutionalism
- Presidential Power Claims and Constitutional Perspectives
- Executive Constitutionalism
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times
Product Details
HARDCOVER
$62.50 • £50.95 • €56.50
ISBN 9780674031616
Publication Date: 02/16/2009
Awards & Accolades
- 2009 Chicago–Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize