The Actual Art of Governing

Justice Robert H. Jackson's Concurring Opinion in the Steel Seizure Case

Gerard N. Magliocca (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-776853-2 (ISBN)

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Since the adoption of the US constitution, there has been ongoing calibration of the power balance between the three branches of government, often in the face of rapidly changing social and political contexts. In 1952, US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson took up this debate in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer, a watershed case that barred President Harry S. Truman from seizing privately operated steel mills during the Korean War. Concurring with the majority decision, Jackson penned an opinion that would become the authoritative source on the constitutional boundary between congressional and executive authority.

In The Actual Art of Governing, eminent legal historian Gerard N. Magliocca takes a close look at this landmark opinion, providing a deep reading of the decision and the context surrounding it, and explaining its lasting influence. Magliocca skillfully shows how Justice Jackson's opinion broke free of the rules for judicial writing, taking a pragmatic approach to constitutional interpretation that drew on personal experience and historical examples, rather than sticking strictly to the text, judicial doctrine, and original public meaning. The framework that Jackson proposed took on crucial significance during the fallout of Richard Nixon's Watergate abuses and has continued to be relied upon in controversies involving the reach of the US President's power, including actions taken by Donald Trump. Magliocca concludes by arguing that a proper reading of Jackson's Youngstown concurrence would lead to significant curbs on emergency powers, the discretion of the federal courts, and presidential authority.

Gerard N. Magliocca is Distinguished Professor and Lawrence A. Jegen III Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He has written five books and many articles on American constitutional history. His book, Washington's Heir: The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington (Oxford University Press 2022) won the Erwin N. Griswold Book Prize awarded by the Supreme Court Historical Society.

Part 1: Elements
1: The Justice
2: The Case
3: The Opinion
4: Drafting Choices
Part 2: Themes
5: Personal Reflections
6: Relativity
7: Widest Latitude
8: Imponderables
9: Lowest Ebb
10: Commander in Chief
11: Emergency!
12: The Modern Presidency
Part 3: Results
13: The Scandal
14: The Law Clerks
Epilogue: A Lonely Landmark

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2025
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	485 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-776853-9 / 0197768539
ISBN-13	978-0-19-776853-2 / 9780197768532
Zustand	Neuware