Free Download Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZYMFCNZ | 2024 | 8 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 237 MB
Author: Casey B. K. Dominguez
Narrator: Nancy Peterson
The constitutional balance of war powers has shifted from Congress to the president over time. Today, presidents broadly define their constitutional authority as commander in chief. In the nineteenth century, however, Congress was the institution that claimed and defended expansive war powers authority. This discrepancy raises important questions: How, specifically, did Congress define the boundaries between presidential and congressional war powers in the early republic? Did that definition change? Casey Dominguez’s Commander in Chief systematically analyzes the authority that members of Congress ascribe to the president as commander in chief and the boundaries they put around that authority.
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