Download or read book The Communitarian Constitution written by Beau Breslin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-04-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A specialist in constitutional law and civil liberties, Breslin (Skidmore College) first sets out the 1861 case in which Lincoln suspended habeus corpus on the basis of national security, and the US Supreme Court determined that the president has no such constitutional authority. Then he uses it to explain the tension between communitarians who bel