The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America's Freedoms - Hardcover

Fisher, Louis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0700616004 ISBN 13: 9780700616008

Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas, 2008

Synopsis

The author assesses the longstanding tension between protecting constitutional rights and safeguarding national security in a study that focuses on how the Bush administration's responses to 9/11 have threatened the Constitution and the rights it protects. Simultaneous.

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From the Back Cover:

"Fisher brilliantly illuminates our predicament, explaining how we abandoned cherished principles of law and human dignity, and how we might yet live up to our own ideals."--Steven Aftergood, Project on Government Secrecy, Federation of American Scientists

"Demonstrates in chilling detail how American law and the courts have failed repeatedly to protect our liberties. . . . A treasure house of information and an invaluable guide for scholars, students, and citizens."--Aziz Huq, author of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror

"A comprehensive, striking, and disturbing analysis of executive misuse of power that is made all the more compelling by placing it in a rich and fascinating historical context."--William G. Weaver, coauthor of Presidential Secrecy and the Law

About the Author:

Louis Fisher is the author of more than a dozen books, including Presidential War Power, Military Tribunals and Presidential Power, In the Name of National Security, and Constitutional Conflicts between Congress and the President, now in its fifth edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0700616004
• ISBN 13: 9780700616008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 394