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Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority (Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law) by Claire Finkelstein (editor), Michael Skerker (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The idea of sovereignty and the debates that surround it are not merely of historical, academic, or legal interest: they are also potent, vibrant issues and as current and relevant as today's front page news in the United States and in other Western democracies. In the post- 9/11 United States, the growth of the national security state has resulted in a growing struggle to maintain the legal and ethical boundaries surrounding executive authority, boundaries that help to define and protect democratic governance. These post-9/11 developments and their effect on the scope of presidential power present hard questions and are fueling today's intense debates among political leaders, citizens, constitutional scholars, historians, and philosophers. This volume will contribute to the public conversation on the nature of executive authority and its relation to the broader topic of sovereignty in several ways. First, readers will learn that the current vital questions surrounding the nature of executive authority and presidential power have their intellectual roots in historical and philosophical writings about the nature of sovereignty. Second, sovereignty has historically been a complicated

Who reads Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority (Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law)?

Author

Claire Finkelstein (editor), Michael Skerker (editor)

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190922559

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Political Science