David Gray Adler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1102015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Gray Adler |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Gray |
| FAMILY NAME | Adler |
| SIGNATURE | ADLER D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Idaho State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Law Jerusalem Passport Case: Judicial Error and the Expansion of the President's Recognition Power
Presidential power to recognize foreign nations and governments, exercised since the dawn of the republic, has never been viewed as exclusive. Indeed, C ongress has enacted legislation that conferred recognition upon foreign countries. Recently, however, the U nited S tates Court of Appeals for the D istrict of C olumbia, in Z ivotofsky v. S ecretary of S tate , asserted for the first time in A merican history an exclusive presidential power of r…
Louis Fisher on the Constitution and the War Power
Lou Fisher's prolific writings on the war power—the constitutional repository of authority to initiate war and lesser military hostilities on behalf of the American people—have informed and, for the better part of four decades, shaped discussions and debates on the respective roles of Congress and the president, from the halls of academe to the corridors of power. Widely cited and invoked on hundreds of occasions by political scientists, historia…
The Law: The Framers and Executive Prerogative: A Constitutional and Historical Rebuke
Continued assertions of a presidential prerogative power, broad enough, in the literary tradition of the Lockean Prerogative to permit the president in an emergency to act in the absence or violation of law, raises anew the question of the existence, source, and scope of such extraordinary authority. This article explains that the framers of the Constitution delivered a constitutional and historical rebuke to the concept of executive prerogative.…
The Law Presidential Power and Foreign Affairs in the Bush Administration: The Use and Abuse of Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton's writings, virtually alone among the framers, were invoked by President George W. Bush and his legal advisors as the cornerstone of the administration's assertions of sweeping executive powers in the areas of war and peace and national security. The Bush administration's conscription of Hamilton to justify its soaring claims of presidential power, however, represents a distortion and abuse of his views of the latter president'…
The Law: George Bush as Commander in Chief: Toward the Nether World of Constitutionalism
The Bush administration has advanced an expansive conception of the Commander‐in‐Chief Clause that has launched presidential power on a trajectory toward the realm of illimitable and unaccountable power, the nether world of American constitutionalism. President Bush would ascribe to the commander in chief powers that were never possessed by the president when the post was incorporated into the Constitution, and which may not be engrafted by a the…
The Law: Textbooks and the President's Constitutional Powers
For many college students, enrollment in an introductory course on American government and politics will constitute their only detailed orientation to U.S. constitutional principles. What they read in introductory textbooks about presidential power will significantly inform and shape their understanding of the authority wielded by the nation's chief executive. How do introductory texts portray the president's constitutional powers? This essay arg…
The Law: Termination of the ABM Treaty and the Political Question Doctrine: Judicial Succor for Presidential Power
President George W. Bush's unilateral termination of the 1972 ABM Treaty between the United States and Russia triggered a lawsuit, Kucinich v. Bush, in which members of the House of Representatives challenged the constitutionality of Bush's action on grounds that the president may not terminate a treaty without congressional approval. The Federal District Court refused to reach the merits of the case and dismissed the case as a nonjusticiable pol…
Presidential Greatness as an Attribute of Warmaking
The founders of the nation were acutely aware of the penchant among executives to pursue war as a means of achieving fame and glory. Scholars, like presidents, have assumed a strong correlation between presidential tenure during war and presidential greatness. That assumption must necessarily rest on either the decision to go to war or on the president's conduct of war, or on both considerations. This essay contends that, contrary to the assumpti…
The Clinton Wars: The Constitution, Congress, and War Powers
Virtues of the War Clause
The Law: The Clinton Theory of the War Power
President Bill Clinton frequently has engaged in unilateral acts of executive war making in defiance of the war clause of the Constitution, which vests in Congress the exclusive authority to initiate hostilities on behalf of the American people. Recently, Clinton ordered in concert with NATO allies a massive air and missile assault against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, an attack that ranks as the most intensive and sustained military campai…
Virtues of the War Clause
Critics of the war clause contend that congressional preeminence in war making as commanded by the Constitution is no longer relevant to international politics. In a word, the constitutional arrangement for war and peace is obsolete. In spite of those criticisms, it is argued here that the values underlying the war clause–notably a deep‐seated fear of unilateral executive war making and a commitment to collective decision making in foreign affair…
The War Powers Resolution: Time to Say Goodbye
LOUIS FISHER is senior specialist in separation of powers at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. His most recent book is Presidential War Power. DAVID GRAY ADLER is professor of political science at Idaho State University. His most recent book, which he edited with Larry N. George, is The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy
The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy
In this provocative and readable volume, eleven leading constitutional authorities challenge business as usual in American foreign policymaking. For far too long, they contend, Americans have acquiesced to presidential claims to sweeping executive powers in foreign affairs thanks to imperial-minded presidents, a weak-willed Congress, and neglectful scholars. These authors forcefully argue that the president is not the supreme crafter of foreign p…
Beyond the ConstitutionHadley Arkes Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, pp. x, 278
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The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra Affair, by Harold Hongju Koh
Journal Article The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra Affair, by Harold Hongju Koh Get access The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra Affair by Harold Hongju Koh. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1990. 340 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $14.95. David Adler David Adler Idaho State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quart…
The Modern Presidency: From Roosevelt to Reagan, by Malcolm Shaw
The Constitution and Presidential Warmaking: The Enduring Debate
A series of presidential wars1 over the past forty years, from Korea and Vietnam to Cambodia and Grenada, has triggered an intense and sometimes acerbic debate within both the scholarly community and the corriders of power on the question of whether Congress or the president is constitutionally empowered to commence war.2 The issue of the constitutional repository of the power to decide for war is of surpassing importance for a nation faced with …
The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy
In this provocative and readable volume, eleven leading constitutional authorities challenge business as usual in American foreign policymaking. For far too long, they contend, Americans have acquiesced to presidential claims to sweeping executive powers in foreign affairs thanks to imperial-minded presidents, a weak-willed Congress, and neglectful scholars. These authors forcefully argue that the president is not the supreme crafter of foreign p…
The Law Presidential Power and Foreign Affairs in the Bush Administration: The Use and Abuse of Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton's writings, virtually alone among the framers, were invoked by President George W. Bush and his legal advisors as the cornerstone of the administration's assertions of sweeping executive powers in the areas of war and peace and national security. The Bush administration's conscription of Hamilton to justify its soaring claims of presidential power, however, represents a distortion and abuse of his views of the latter president'…
The Law: George Bush as Commander in Chief: Toward the Nether World of Constitutionalism
The Bush administration has advanced an expansive conception of the Commander‐in‐Chief Clause that has launched presidential power on a trajectory toward the realm of illimitable and unaccountable power, the nether world of American constitutionalism. President Bush would ascribe to the commander in chief powers that were never possessed by the president when the post was incorporated into the Constitution, and which may not be engrafted by a the…
Presidential Greatness as an Attribute of Warmaking
The founders of the nation were acutely aware of the penchant among executives to pursue war as a means of achieving fame and glory. Scholars, like presidents, have assumed a strong correlation between presidential tenure during war and presidential greatness. That assumption must necessarily rest on either the decision to go to war or on the president's conduct of war, or on both considerations. This essay contends that, contrary to the assumpti…
The Constitution and Presidential Warmaking: The Enduring Debate
A series of presidential wars1 over the past forty years, from Korea and Vietnam to Cambodia and Grenada, has triggered an intense and sometimes acerbic debate within both the scholarly community and the corriders of power on the question of whether Congress or the president is constitutionally empowered to commence war.2 The issue of the constitutional repository of the power to decide for war is of surpassing importance for a nation faced with …
The Law: The Framers and Executive Prerogative: A Constitutional and Historical Rebuke
Continued assertions of a presidential prerogative power, broad enough, in the literary tradition of the Lockean Prerogative to permit the president in an emergency to act in the absence or violation of law, raises anew the question of the existence, source, and scope of such extraordinary authority. This article explains that the framers of the Constitution delivered a constitutional and historical rebuke to the concept of executive prerogative.…
The Law: Textbooks and the President's Constitutional Powers
For many college students, enrollment in an introductory course on American government and politics will constitute their only detailed orientation to U.S. constitutional principles. What they read in introductory textbooks about presidential power will significantly inform and shape their understanding of the authority wielded by the nation's chief executive. How do introductory texts portray the president's constitutional powers? This essay arg…
The Modern Presidency: From Roosevelt to Reagan, by Malcolm Shaw
The Law: Termination of the ABM Treaty and the Political Question Doctrine: Judicial Succor for Presidential Power
President George W. Bush's unilateral termination of the 1972 ABM Treaty between the United States and Russia triggered a lawsuit, Kucinich v. Bush, in which members of the House of Representatives challenged the constitutionality of Bush's action on grounds that the president may not terminate a treaty without congressional approval. The Federal District Court refused to reach the merits of the case and dismissed the case as a nonjusticiable pol…
The Clinton Wars: The Constitution, Congress, and War Powers
The War Powers Resolution: Time to Say Goodbye
LOUIS FISHER is senior specialist in separation of powers at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. His most recent book is Presidential War Power. DAVID GRAY ADLER is professor of political science at Idaho State University. His most recent book, which he edited with Larry N. George, is The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy
The Modern Presidency: From Roosevelt to Reagan, by Malcolm Shaw
The Constitution and Presidential Warmaking: The Enduring Debate
A series of presidential wars1 over the past forty years, from Korea and Vietnam to Cambodia and Grenada, has triggered an intense and sometimes acerbic debate within both the scholarly community and the corriders of power on the question of whether Congress or the president is constitutionally empowered to commence war.2 The issue of the constitutional repository of the power to decide for war is of surpassing importance for a nation faced with …
The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra Affair, by Harold Hongju Koh
Journal Article The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra Affair, by Harold Hongju Koh Get access The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra Affair by Harold Hongju Koh. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1990. 340 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $14.95. David Adler David Adler Idaho State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quart…
Beyond the ConstitutionHadley Arkes Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, pp. x, 278
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy
In this provocative and readable volume, eleven leading constitutional authorities challenge business as usual in American foreign policymaking. For far too long, they contend, Americans have acquiesced to presidential claims to sweeping executive powers in foreign affairs thanks to imperial-minded presidents, a weak-willed Congress, and neglectful scholars. These authors forcefully argue that the president is not the supreme crafter of foreign p…
The War Powers Resolution: Time to Say Goodbye
LOUIS FISHER is senior specialist in separation of powers at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. His most recent book is Presidential War Power. DAVID GRAY ADLER is professor of political science at Idaho State University. His most recent book, which he edited with Larry N. George, is The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy
Virtues of the War Clause
The Law: The Clinton Theory of the War Power
President Bill Clinton frequently has engaged in unilateral acts of executive war making in defiance of the war clause of the Constitution, which vests in Congress the exclusive authority to initiate hostilities on behalf of the American people. Recently, Clinton ordered in concert with NATO allies a massive air and missile assault against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, an attack that ranks as the most intensive and sustained military campai…
Virtues of the War Clause
Critics of the war clause contend that congressional preeminence in war making as commanded by the Constitution is no longer relevant to international politics. In a word, the constitutional arrangement for war and peace is obsolete. In spite of those criticisms, it is argued here that the values underlying the war clause–notably a deep‐seated fear of unilateral executive war making and a commitment to collective decision making in foreign affair…
Presidential Greatness as an Attribute of Warmaking
The founders of the nation were acutely aware of the penchant among executives to pursue war as a means of achieving fame and glory. Scholars, like presidents, have assumed a strong correlation between presidential tenure during war and presidential greatness. That assumption must necessarily rest on either the decision to go to war or on the president's conduct of war, or on both considerations. This essay contends that, contrary to the assumpti…
The Clinton Wars: The Constitution, Congress, and War Powers
The Law: Termination of the ABM Treaty and the Political Question Doctrine: Judicial Succor for Presidential Power
President George W. Bush's unilateral termination of the 1972 ABM Treaty between the United States and Russia triggered a lawsuit, Kucinich v. Bush, in which members of the House of Representatives challenged the constitutionality of Bush's action on grounds that the president may not terminate a treaty without congressional approval. The Federal District Court refused to reach the merits of the case and dismissed the case as a nonjusticiable pol…
The Law: Textbooks and the President's Constitutional Powers
For many college students, enrollment in an introductory course on American government and politics will constitute their only detailed orientation to U.S. constitutional principles. What they read in introductory textbooks about presidential power will significantly inform and shape their understanding of the authority wielded by the nation's chief executive. How do introductory texts portray the president's constitutional powers? This essay arg…
The Law: George Bush as Commander in Chief: Toward the Nether World of Constitutionalism
The Bush administration has advanced an expansive conception of the Commander‐in‐Chief Clause that has launched presidential power on a trajectory toward the realm of illimitable and unaccountable power, the nether world of American constitutionalism. President Bush would ascribe to the commander in chief powers that were never possessed by the president when the post was incorporated into the Constitution, and which may not be engrafted by a the…
The Law Presidential Power and Foreign Affairs in the Bush Administration: The Use and Abuse of Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton's writings, virtually alone among the framers, were invoked by President George W. Bush and his legal advisors as the cornerstone of the administration's assertions of sweeping executive powers in the areas of war and peace and national security. The Bush administration's conscription of Hamilton to justify its soaring claims of presidential power, however, represents a distortion and abuse of his views of the latter president'…
The Law: The Framers and Executive Prerogative: A Constitutional and Historical Rebuke
Continued assertions of a presidential prerogative power, broad enough, in the literary tradition of the Lockean Prerogative to permit the president in an emergency to act in the absence or violation of law, raises anew the question of the existence, source, and scope of such extraordinary authority. This article explains that the framers of the Constitution delivered a constitutional and historical rebuke to the concept of executive prerogative.…
Louis Fisher on the Constitution and the War Power
Lou Fisher's prolific writings on the war power—the constitutional repository of authority to initiate war and lesser military hostilities on behalf of the American people—have informed and, for the better part of four decades, shaped discussions and debates on the respective roles of Congress and the president, from the halls of academe to the corridors of power. Widely cited and invoked on hundreds of occasions by political scientists, historia…
The Law Jerusalem Passport Case: Judicial Error and the Expansion of the President's Recognition Power
Presidential power to recognize foreign nations and governments, exercised since the dawn of the republic, has never been viewed as exclusive. Indeed, C ongress has enacted legislation that conferred recognition upon foreign countries. Recently, however, the U nited S tates Court of Appeals for the D istrict of C olumbia, in Z ivotofsky v. S ecretary of S tate , asserted for the first time in A merican history an exclusive presidential power of r…
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