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Extra-legal power and legitimacy : perspectives on prerogative / edited by Clement Fatovic, Benjamin A. Kleinerman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and emergency powers--United States.
- War and emergency powers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title examines the costs and benefits associated with different ways that governments have wielded extra-legal powers in times of emergency. It surveys distinct models of emergency governments and draw diverse and conflicting approaches by joining influential thinkers into conversation with one another.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Extra-Legal Measures and the Problem of Legitimacy""; ""PART I: EARLY FRAMEWORKS""; ""CHAPTER 2. Prerogative Power in Rome""; ""CHAPTER 3. Violating Divine Law: Emergency Measures in Jewish Law""; ""CHAPTER 4. Lockean Prerogative: Productive Tensions""; ""PART II: AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES""; ""CHAPTER 5. The Limits of Constitutional Government: Alexander Hamilton on Extraordinary Power and Executive Discretion""; ""CHAPTER 6. The Jeffersonian Executive: More Energetic, More Responsible, and Less Stable""
- ""CHAPTER 7. Lincoln and Executive Power During the Civil War: A Case Study""""PART III: PREROGATIVE IN CONTEMPORARY LIBERAL DEMOCRACY""; ""CHAPTER 8. Filling the Void: Democratic Deliberation and the Legitimization of Extra-Legal Action""; ""CHAPTER 9. Emergency Powers and Terrorism-Related Regulation Circa 2012: Perspectives on Prerogative Power in the United States""; ""CHAPTER 10. The Irrelevance of Prerogative Power, and the Evils of Secret Legal Interpretation""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""
- ""Q""""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 25, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-935134-1
- 0-19-997472-1
- OCLC:
- 859537111
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