Extraordinary Measures: The Exercise of Prerogative Powers in the United States

By Daniel P. Franklin

Book Overview

An examination of the exercise of extraordinary powers in extraordinary times by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of American government, this book asks at what point we risk destroying the state in order to save it. It also addresses the question of whetehr the Constitution contains within itself the tools necessary for its own survival.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822954516
• ISBN13: 9780822954514
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 172 Pages