Political Questions Judicial Answers (eBook)

Does the Rule of Law Apply to Foreign Affairs?

Thomas M. Franck (Autor)

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2012
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2073-3 (ISBN)

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Almost since the beginning of the republic, America's rigorous separation of powers among Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches has been umpired by the federal judiciary. It may seem surprising, then, that many otherwise ordinary cases are not decided in court even when they include allegations that the President, or Congress, has violated a law or the Constitution itself. Most of these orphan cases are shunned by the judiciary simply because they have foreign policy aspects. In refusing to address the issues involved, judges indicate that judicial review, like politics, should stop at the water's edge--and foreign policy managers find it convenient to agree! Thomas Franck, however, maintains that when courts invoke the "e;political question"e; doctrine to justify such reticence, they evade a constitutional duty. In his view, whether the government has acted constitutionally in sending men and women to die in foreign battles is just as appropriate an issue for a court to decide as whether property has been taken without due process. In this revisionist work, Franck proposes ways to subject the conduct of foreign policy to the rule of law without compromising either judicial integrity or the national interest. By examining the historical origins of the separation of powers in the American constitutional tradition, with comparative reference to the practices of judiciaries in other federal systems, he broadens and enriches discussions of an important national issue that has particular significance for critical debate about the "e;imperial presidency."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.5.2012
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: abdication • act of state doctrine • Adjudication • Advisory Opinion • Affidavit • Allegation • Ambiguity (law) • Baker v. Carr • Basic Law • chief justice • classified information • Common Law • Consideration • constitutional amendment • Constitutionalism • Constitutionality • court order • Declaratory judgment • Deem (law) • defendant • Discretion • Due Process • Eminent domain • Evidence (Law) • exculpatory evidence • Ex parte • Extradition • Extraterritorial operation • federal bureau of investigation • Federal Constitutional Court • federal judge • Federal Republic • Finality (law) • Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act • foreign policy • Foreign Relations • Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act • freedom of speech • Government in Exile • in camera • injunction • international court • International Law • Judgment (law) • Judicial Activism • judicial deference • Judicial Independence • Judicial interpretation • Judicial restraint • Judiciary • Jurisdiction • Jurisprudence • Law of the United States • Legal burden of proof • legality • legal liability • Legal proceeding • Legal process (jurisprudence) • Legal remedy • Legislation • Mandamus • Marbury v. Madison • national security • Necessity • Objection (law) • Persona non Grata • petitioner • plaintiff • Political question • Politics • Powell v. McCormack • Precedent • Prejudice (legal term) • presumption • Procedural law • Prosecutor • Public International Law • public law • Quasi-judicial body • Question of law • ratification • Rational basis review • Reid v. Covert • royal prerogative • Rule of Law • Sensitive Security Information • Separation of Powers • sources of international law • sovereign immunity • Sovereignty • special prosecutor • Standing (law) • Statute • subpoena • Summary judgment • Treaty • United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit • United States federal judge • United States v. Lee • War Powers Resolution
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2073-1 / 1400820731
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2073-3 / 9781400820733