Sovereignty and the new executive authority / edited by Claire Finkelstein and Michael Skerker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finkelstein, Claire Oakes, editor.

Skerker, Michael, editor.

Series:

Ethics, national security, and the rule of law series

Ethics, national security, and the rule of law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executive power--United States.

Executive power.

United States.

War and emergency powers--United States.

War and emergency powers.

Sovereignty.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 352 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This volume explores moral and legal issues relating to sovereignty by addressing foundational questions about its nature, examining state sovereignty between states, and dealing with post 9/11 developments in the U.S., potentially destabilizing received views of democratic sovereignty. With essays addressing foundational, state and international sovereignty, the book focuses on Post 9/11 developments including the profusion of secret national security programs, including those pertaining to the interrogation, rendition, and detention of terror suspects; signal intercepts and meta-data analysis; and targeted killing of irregular militants; prompting questions regarding the legitimacy of executive power in this arena.

Contents:

Part 1 The Intellectual Roots of Sovereignty

1 Hobbes on Sovereign Authority: How the Right of Nature Becomes Sovereign Right p. 3 / David Gauthier

2 Sovereignty as a Right and as a Duty: Kant's Theory of the State p. 21 / Jacob Weinrib

3 Sovereignty, Political Obligation, and Fairness p. 47 / William E. O'Brian, Jr.

Part 2 Sovereignty in the Present Age: Modern Executive Authority in a Constitutional Democracy

4 Defining and Constraining the Sovereign: "The Most Difficult of All Tasks" p. 67 / Charles Fried

5 Sovereignty and Executive Power p. 85 / Christopher W. Morris

6 Locating Sovereignty in Systems of Divided and Limited Government p. 99 / S.A. Lloyd

7 The Publian President in the Twenty-First Century p. 121 / Sanford Levinson

Part 3 Vertical Sovereignty: Presidential Powers and National Security

8 The Imperial Presidency and the Rule of Law p. 145 / Claire O. Finkelstein

9 A Two-Level Account of Executive Authority p. 161 / Michael Skerker

10 Transparency and Executive Authority p. 187 / Chris Naticchia

11 Secret Tribunals and the Limits of Sovereignty p. 209 / Larry May

Part 4 Horizontal Sovereignty: International Relations and War

12 Logically Private Laws: Legislative Secrecy in "The War on Terror" p. 225 / Duncan MacIntosh

13 Sovereignty and Associative Obligations p. 253 / Aaron James

14 Contract; Treaty, and Sovereignty p. 283 / Matthew Lister

15 Defense and Ignorance: War, Secrecy, and the Possibility of Popular Sovereignty p. 309 / Alexander A. Guerrero.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190922542

0190922540

9780190922580

0190922583

OCLC:

1031041113