Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror 9781595587459

Thirty years after the Church Committee unearthed COINTELPRO and other instances of illicit executive behavior on the do

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Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title Everything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an A

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Post-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority

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In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling provides a blueprint for those who are skeptical of political and financial el

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Fire, flood, earthquake, famine, pestilence, and warfare are no strangers to our experience. Once, we sought to placate

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This book shows how the forces of freedom are everywhere challenged by a newly energized spirit of tyranny, whether it b

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Each year billions of dollars are diverted by the President and his assistants from the purposes for which Congress inte

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That the president uniquely represents the national interest is a political truism, yet this idea has been transformatio

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In this collection of twelve masterly articles, one of the titans of constitutional law charts the development of the do

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An objective and unflinching analysis of the destruction of America’s constitutional order and the creation of an electi

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