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Permanent state of emergency : unchecked executive power and the demise of the rule of law, Ryan Alford
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- Summary
- "After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the US launched several initiatives that are either at the outermost limit of what international human rights law allows or over that limit. These involved systematic violations of non-derogable rights like the right not to be killed without due process, not to be subjected to indefinite arbitrary detention, and not to be tortured. The President of the United States now signs unreviewable death warrants authorizing drone strikes against the nation's citizens; Congress and the courts have declined to review these decisions or curtail this practice, setting a precedent for executive immunity. Do these violations of constitutional law signify a qualitative transformation of the legal order of the United States? Should one seek to answer this question, is it possible to create objective criteria for a mode of constitutional governance? Is it possible to use these criteria to judge whether a nation can be properly considered a rule of law state? This book answers all these questions in the affirmative. The Demise of the Rule of Law in the United States details the long-term consequences of the acceptance of these assertions of executive supremacy: it demonstrates that currently, no branch of government is committed to restraining any presidential administration within the boundaries of the rule of law. The book distinguishes itself from other accounts of the degeneration of constitutional governance during the same period by using an operationalized version of the rule of law as its template for nonconformity. As the book also demonstrates that the minimum norms of the rule of law are embedded within the Constitution of the United States, the conclusion about the effects of the emergency on its constitutional order has considerably more rhetorical force than other scholarly critiques."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 333 pages
- Contents
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- The minimum requirements of the rule of law
- The historical development of the rule of law in the United States
- Overbroad authority given to and appropriated by the executive after the 9/11 attacks
- The response of the judiciary to executive overreaching, 2003-12
- Judicial selection and executive branch dominance
- Congress's failure to exercise oversight
- Isbn
- 9780773549197
- Label
- Permanent state of emergency : unchecked executive power and the demise of the rule of law
- Title
- Permanent state of emergency
- Title remainder
- unchecked executive power and the demise of the rule of law
- Statement of responsibility
- Ryan Alford
- Subject
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- trueExecutive power
- trueExecutive power -- United States
- trueHuman rights -- United States
- LAW
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- trueRule of law
- trueRule of law -- United States
- United States
- War and emergency powers
- trueWar and emergency powers
- trueWar and emergency powers -- United States
- trueWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009
- Rule of law
- Executive power
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the US launched several initiatives that are either at the outermost limit of what international human rights law allows or over that limit. These involved systematic violations of non-derogable rights like the right not to be killed without due process, not to be subjected to indefinite arbitrary detention, and not to be tortured. The President of the United States now signs unreviewable death warrants authorizing drone strikes against the nation's citizens; Congress and the courts have declined to review these decisions or curtail this practice, setting a precedent for executive immunity. Do these violations of constitutional law signify a qualitative transformation of the legal order of the United States? Should one seek to answer this question, is it possible to create objective criteria for a mode of constitutional governance? Is it possible to use these criteria to judge whether a nation can be properly considered a rule of law state? This book answers all these questions in the affirmative. The Demise of the Rule of Law in the United States details the long-term consequences of the acceptance of these assertions of executive supremacy: it demonstrates that currently, no branch of government is committed to restraining any presidential administration within the boundaries of the rule of law. The book distinguishes itself from other accounts of the degeneration of constitutional governance during the same period by using an operationalized version of the rule of law as its template for nonconformity. As the book also demonstrates that the minimum norms of the rule of law are embedded within the Constitution of the United States, the conclusion about the effects of the emergency on its constitutional order has considerably more rhetorical force than other scholarly critiques."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10566898
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1975-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Alford, Ryan Patrick
- Dewey number
- 342.73/062
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- War and emergency powers
- Executive power
- Rule of law
- Executive power
- Rule of law
- War and emergency powers
- LAW
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- United States
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- unchecked executive power and the demise of the rule of law
- Label
- Permanent state of emergency : unchecked executive power and the demise of the rule of law, Ryan Alford
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
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- rdacarrier
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- Content type code
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- txt
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- Contents
- The minimum requirements of the rule of law -- The historical development of the rule of law in the United States -- Overbroad authority given to and appropriated by the executive after the 9/11 attacks -- The response of the judiciary to executive overreaching, 2003-12 -- Judicial selection and executive branch dominance -- Congress's failure to exercise oversight
- Control code
- 1823679
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 333 pages
- Isbn
- 9780773549197
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780773549197
- (OCoLC)964327527
- Label
- Permanent state of emergency : unchecked executive power and the demise of the rule of law, Ryan Alford
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The minimum requirements of the rule of law -- The historical development of the rule of law in the United States -- Overbroad authority given to and appropriated by the executive after the 9/11 attacks -- The response of the judiciary to executive overreaching, 2003-12 -- Judicial selection and executive branch dominance -- Congress's failure to exercise oversight
- Control code
- 1823679
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 333 pages
- Isbn
- 9780773549197
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780773549197
- (OCoLC)964327527
Subject
- trueExecutive power
- trueExecutive power -- United States
- trueHuman rights -- United States
- LAW
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- trueRule of law
- trueRule of law -- United States
- United States
- War and emergency powers
- trueWar and emergency powers
- trueWar and emergency powers -- United States
- trueWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009
- Rule of law
- Executive power
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