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Title 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.

Publication Info. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.

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 Moore Stacks  KF5060.A75 U8 1994    Available  ---
Description vi, 199 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Contributions in military studies, 0883-6884 ; no. 150
Contributions in military studies ; no. 150.
Note "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) 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.
Subject War and emergency powers -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
War and emergency powers.
United States.
History.
Executive power -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
Executive power.
United States. Congress -- Powers and duties -- History -- Congresses.
United States. Congress.
Constitutional history -- United States -- Congresses.
Constitutional history.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Stern, Gary M.
Halperin, Morton H.
Center for National Security Studies (Washington, D.C.)
Georgetown University. Law Center.
ISBN 0313289581 alkaline paper