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The U.S. Constitution and the power to go to war : historical and current perspectives /

The U.S. Constitution and the power to go to war : historical and current perspectives / edited by Gary M. Stern and Morton H. Halperin, prepared under the auspices of the Center for National Security Studies. - Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994. - vi, 199 p. ; 25 cm.

"The chapters in this book were originally commissioned for the September 18-19, 1992 CNSS conference on Constitutional Government and Military Intervention after the Cold War, held at and cosponsored by the Georgetown University Law Center"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-189) and index.

Introduction / Gary M. Stern and Morton H. Halperin -- 1. Historical Survey of the War Powers and the Use of Force / Louis Fisher -- 2. Constitutional Constraints: The War Clause / Peter Raven-Hansen -- 3. Statutory Constraints: The War Powers Resolution / Ellen C. Collier -- 4. Treaty Constraints: The United Nations Charter and War Powers / Jane E. Stromseth -- 5. International Law Constraints / Jules Lobel -- 6. Judicial Constraints: The Courts and War Powers / Harold Hongju Koh -- 7. Constraints on "Covert" Paramilitary Action / Gregory F. Treverton -- 8. "Covert" Paramilitary Action and War Powers / Gary M. Stern and Morton H. Halperin -- 9. Emergency War Powers / John Norton Moore -- 10. Common Ground / Gary M. Stern and Morton H. Halperin.

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United States. Congress


War and emergency powers--Congresses.--United States--History
Executive power--History--Congresses.--United States
Constitutional history--Congresses.--United States

342.73062 / USC 1994