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The Presidential Pardon : The Short Clause with a Long, Troubled History.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Law materials
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Today, pardons seem to be astonishingly broad and everywhere, with candidates promising pardons and presidents eagerly passing out get-out-of-jail free cards to allies and relatives. Saikrishna Prakash explores the transformation of the pardon--once mostly a rare feat of principled deliberation, now a routine matter of pure political expediency.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: Twenty Words
- 1. An Eighteenth-Century Clause
- 2. Parsing the Pardon Power
- 3. Washingtonian Mercy
- 4. Politics by Other Means
- 5. A Tale of Two Clemencies
- 6. Our Pardon Dystopia
- 7. The Future of Twenty Words
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-30388-1
- 0-674-30389-X
- 9780674303898
- OCLC:
- 1559561367
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