The Presidency and the Constitution Cases and Controversies

by Genovese, Michael A.; Spitzer, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9781403966742
• ISBN10: 1403966745
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-20
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This comprehensive case law book examines the evolution of judicial interpretation of the scope and limitations of presidential power. From interbranch struggles for power, to presidential selection, to campaign financing, to war powers, hardly an issue arises for the modern presidency that does not eventually find itself framed as a legal problem to be addressed by the courts. Each section provides an introduction providing background and framework for students. Throughout, the analysis is informed by the view that court decisions are framed by legal arguments and constitute legal issuances and are also framed by politics, and have profound political consequences. Coinciding with a broader intellectual and disciplinary return to institutions and law as key to understanding the presidency and modern politics, this book will find special favor among scholars who teach courses on the presidency and related areas.

Author Biography

Michael A. Genovese holds the Loyola Chair of Leadership and is Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. Robert J. Spitzer is Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, College at Cortland.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
About the Authors	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
Court--President Clashes: The Cases of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton	15	(8)
Separation of Powers	23	(36)
Marbury v. Madison (1803)	24	(3)
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)	27	(12)
AFL-CIO v. Kahn (1979)	39	(3)
INS v. Chadha (1983)	42	(11)
Clinton v. City of New York (1998)	53	(6)
Selection/Election	59	(12)
Buckley v. Valeo (1976)	60	(4)
Bush v. Gore (2000)	64	(7)
Administrative Powers	71	(28)
Shurtleff v. United States (1903)	72	(1)
Myers v. United States (1926)	73	(7)
Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935)	80	(3)
Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982)	83	(5)
Harlow & Butterfield v. Fitzgerald (1982)	88	(4)
Mitchell v. Forsyth (1985)	92	(3)
Clinton v. Jones (1997)	95	(4)
Executive Privilege	99	(16)
United States v. Nixon (1974)	100	(3)
In re Grand Jury Proceeding (1998)	103	(3)
In Re: Bruce Lindsey (1998)	106	(2)
Cheney et al. v. U.S. District Court (2004)	108	(7)
Congress	115	(18)
In re Neagle (1890)	116	(1)
In re Debs (1895)	117	(3)
U.S. v. Midwest Oil Company (1915)	120	(3)
Bowsher v. Synar (1986)	123	(10)
Domestic Policy	133	(24)
Chicago & Southern Air Lines v. Waterman Steamship Corp. (1948)	133	(3)
New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)	136	(7)
United States v. United States District Court (1972)	143	(5)
Nixon v. Administrator of General Services (1977)	148	(5)
Snepp v. United States (1980)	153	(4)
Budgeting/Economy	157	(6)
Brown v. Califano (1980)	157	(2)
City of New Haven v. U.S. (1987)	159	(4)
Foreign Policy	163	(28)
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation (1936)	164	(3)
United States v. Belmont (1937)	167	(2)
U.S. v. Guy W. Capps, Inc. (1953)	169	(3)
Zemel v. Rusk (1965)	172	(4)
Goldwater v. Carter (1979)	176	(3)
Dames & Moore v. Regan (1981)	179	(5)
Haig v. Agee (1981)	184	(7)
The War Power and the Commander in Chief	191	(36)
Bas v. Tingy (1800)	192	(1)
Talbot v. Seeman (1801)	192	(1)
Little v. Barreme (1804)	193	(2)
The Prize Cases (1863)	195	(3)
Ex Parte Milligan (1866)	198	(3)
Ex Parte Quirin (1942)	201	(4)
Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)	205	(5)
Mora v. McNamara (1967)	210	(2)
Dellums v. Bush (1990)	212	(3)
Hamdi et al. v. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense (2004)	215	(8)
Rasul et al. v. Bush; al Odah v. U.S. (2004)	223	(4)
Conclusion	227	(4)
Glossary	231	(2)
Notes	233	(2)
Index	235