The American presidency has long tested the capacity of the system of checks and balances to constrain executive power, especially in times of war. While schola
Annotation Many analysts now believe that the growth of presidential war power relative to Congress is irreversible. This book contests that view. Buchanan focu
“It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority,” wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The bala
The surprising truth behind Barack Obama's decision to continue many of his predecessor's counterterrorism policies. Conventional wisdom holds that 9/11 sounded
This book examines a fundamental question in the development of the American empire: What constraints does the Constitution place on our territorial expansion,