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Constitutional peril : the life and death struggle for our constitution and democracy / Bruce Fein.

Title
Constitutional peril : the life and death struggle for our constitution and democracy / Bruce Fein.
Author
Fein, Bruce E.
Publication
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Description
xiv, 238 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
"Bruce Fein reveals the dangers our Constitution and our nation have faced courtesy of the Bush Administration and a Congress asleep at the switch. Fein deconstructs the policies of Bush in the War on Terror - from the flouting of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to the crippling of the Great Writ of habeas corpus - and forecasts that the damage done is unlikely to be repaired by a kind-hearted successor."--book jacket.
Subject
  • 2001-2009
  • Executive power > United States
  • Constitutional law > United States
  • Abuse of rights > United States
  • United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-230) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Who cares? -- Impeachment or executive despotism -- What have Bush and Cheney done? -- Looking backward -- Setting the stage -- The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- Demonstrating President Bush's FISA crimes -- Secret government -- State secrets: extraordinary rendition -- Military commissions: tyranny for the sake of tyranny.
ISBN
  • 9780230602885 (hbk.)
  • 0230602886 (hbk.)
LCCN
^^2008300962
OCLC
  • 226280514
  • SCSB-9990303
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library