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    Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority by Finkelstein, Claire; Skerker, Michael;

    Series: Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 3 January 2019

    • ISBN 9780190922542
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages376 pages
    • Size 160x236x33 mm
    • Weight 522 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This volume explores moral and legal issues relating to sovereignty by addressing foundational questions about its nature, examining state sovereignty between states, and dealing with post 9/11 developments in the U.S., questioning the legitimacy of executive power in this arena.

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    Long description:

    The idea of sovereignty and the debates that surroundit 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 thepost- 9/11United States, the growth of the national security state has resulted in a growingstruggle to maintain the legal and ethical boundaries surrounding executive authority, boundaries that help to define and protect democratic governance. Thesepost-9/11 developments and their effect on the scope of presidential power present hard questions and arefueling today'sintensedebates 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 topic; this volume helps identify the terms of the debate. Third, and most critically, citizens' understanding of the concept of sovereignty is essential to grasping the available options for confronting current challenges to the rule of law in democratic societies.

    The volume's 15 essays, drawn from among the disciplines of law, political, science, philosophy, and international relations,covers an expansive series of topics, from historical theories and international affairs, to governmental transparency and legitimacy. The volume also focuses on thechanges in the concept of sovereignty post-9/11 in the United States and their impact on democracy and the rule of law, particularly in the area of national security practice.

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    Table of Contents:

    Foreword by Alberto Mora
    Table of Contents
    Contributors
    Introduction by Claire Finkelstein
    PART I: The Intellectual Roots of Sovereignty
    1. Hobbes on Sovereign Authority: How the Right of Nature Becomes Sovereign Right
    David Gauthier
    2. Kant on the Right and Duty of Sovereignty
    Jacob Weinrib
    3. Sovereignty and Freedom
    William E. O'Brian Jr.
    PART II: SOVEREIGNTY in the Present Age: Modern Executive Authority In a Constitutional Democracy
    4. Defining and Constraining the Sovereign: ?The Most Difficulty of All Tasks?
    Charles Fried
    5. Sovereignty and the Power of the Sovereign
    Christopher Morris
    6. Locating Sovereignty in Systems of Divided and Limited Government
    S.A. Lloyd
    7. The Publian President in the 21st Century
    Sanford Levinson
    PART III: Vertical Sovereignty: Presidential Powers and National Security
    8. The Imperial Presidency and the Rule of Law
    Claire Finkelstein
    9. A Two-Level Account of Executive Authority
    Michael Skerker
    10. Transparency and Executive Authority
    Chris Naticchia
    11. Secret Laws and Tribunals
    Larry May
    Part IV: Horizontal Sovereignty: International Relations and War
    12. Logically Private Laws: Legislative Secrecy in 'The War on Terror'
    Duncan MacIntosh
    13. A Global Practice-based Conception of Domestic Sovereignty
    Aaron James
    14. Contract, Treaty, and Sovereignty
    Matthew Lister
    15. National Insecurity: Democracy, War, and Popular Sovereignty
    Alexander Guerrero
    Index

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