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Extraordinary Measures: The Exercise of Prerogative Powers in the United States (Pitt series in policy & institutional studies) - Hardcover

Franklin, Daniel

 
9780822936725: Extraordinary Measures: The Exercise of Prerogative Powers in the United States (Pitt series in policy & institutional studies)

Synopsis

An examination of the exercise of extraordinary powers in extraordinary times by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of American government, this book asks at what point we risk destroying the state in order to save it. It also addresses the question of whetehr the Constitution contains within itself the tools necessary for its own survival.

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About the Author

Daniel P. Franklin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colgate University.

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