The Constitution and Presidential Warmaking
The Enduring Debate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4288808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Gray Adler (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-36 |
| Publication date | 1988-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2151139 |
| OpenAlex | W2316558246 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
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 specter of the nuclear holocaust, the overwhelming, perhaps incomprehensible destruction of an all-out atomic exchange
Constitution · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2024 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |