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.

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Book
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English
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Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
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vi, 199 pages ; 25 cm.

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    "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.
    Notes
    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Gary M. Stern and Morton H. Halperin
    • Historical survey of the war powers and the use of force / Louis Fisher
    • Constitutional constraints: the war clause / Peter Raven-Hansen
    • Statutory constraints: the war powers resolution / Ellen C. Collier
    • Treaty constraints: the United Nations Charter and war powers / Jane E. Stromseth
    • International law constraints / Jules Lobel
    • Judicial constraints: the courts and war powers / Harold Hongju Koh
    • Constraints on "Covert" Paramilitary Action / Gregory F. Treverton
    • "Covert" paramilitary action and war powers / Gary M. Stern and Morton H. Halperin
    • Emergency war powers / John Norton Moore
    • Common ground / Gary M. Stern and Morton H. Halperin.
    ISBN
    • 0313289581 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780313289583 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    93015840
    OCLC
    28025742
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