Six years after its enactment, Obamacare remains one of the most controversial, divisive, and enduring political issues in America. In this much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed ...Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare (2013), Professor Blackman argues that, to implement the law, President Obama has broken promises about cancelled insurance policies, exceeded the traditional bounds of executive power, and infringed on religious liberty. At the same time, conservative opponents have stopped at nothing to unravel Obamacare, including a three-week government shutdown, four Supreme Court cases, and fifty repeal votes. This legal thriller provides the definitive account of the battle to stop Obamacare from being 'woven into the fabric of America'. Unraveled is essential reading to understand the future of the Affordable Care Act in America's gridlocked government in 2016, and beyond.
Explaining outcomes of decision-making at the European level has occupied scholars since the late 1950s, yet analysts continue to disagree on the most important factors in the process. In this book, ...which was originally published in 2006, Arne Niemann examines the interplay of the supranational, governmental and non-governmental actors involved in EU integration, along with the influence of domestic, supranational and international structures. The book restates and develops neofunctionalism as an approach for explaining decisions in the European Union and assesses the usefulness of the revised neofunctionalist framework on three case studies: the emergence and development of the PHARE programme, the reform of the Common Commercial Policy, and the communitarisation of visa, asylum and immigration policy. Niemann argues that this classic theory can be modified in such a way as to draw on a wider theoretical repertoire and that many micro-level concepts can sensibly be accommodated within his larger neofunctionalist framework.
This volume examines the political ideas behind the construction
of the presidency in the U.S. Constitution, as well as how these
ideas were implemented by the nation's early presidents. The
framers ...of the Constitution disagreed about the scope of the new
executive role they were creating, and this volume reveals the ways
the duties and power of the office developed contrary to many
expectations.
Here, leading scholars of the early republic examine principles
from European thought and culture that were key to establishing the
conceptual language and institutional parameters for the American
executive office. Unpacking the debates at the 1787 Constitutional
Convention, these essays describe how the Constitution left room
for the first presidents to set patterns of behavior and establish
a range of duties to make the office functional within a
governmental system of checks and balances. Contributors explore
how these presidents understood their positions and fleshed out
their full responsibilities according to the everyday operations
required to succeed.
As disputes continue to surround the limits of executive power
today, this volume helps identify and explain the circumstances in
which limits can be imposed on presidents who seem to dangerously
exceed the constitutional parameters of their office. Political
Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency
demonstrates that this distinctive, time-tested role developed from
a fraught, historically contingent, and contested process.
Contributors: Claire Rydell Arcenas | Lindsay
M. Chervinsky | François Furstenberg | Jonathan Gienapp | Daniel J.
Hulsebosch | Ben Lowe | Max Skjönsberg | Eric Slauter | Caroline
Winterer | Blair Worden | Rosemarie Zagarri
A volume in the Alan B. and Charna Larkin Series on the American
Presidency
This book is a history of the civil liberties records of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama. It examines the full range of civil liberties issues: First Amendment rights of ...freedom of speech, press and assembly; due process; equal protection, including racial justice, women's rights, and lesbian and gay rights; privacy rights, including reproductive freedom; and national security issues. The book argues that presidents have not protected or advanced civil liberties, and that several have perpetrated some of the worst violations. Some Democratic presidents (Wilson and Roosevelt), moreover, have violated civil liberties as badly as some Republican presidents (Nixon and Bush). This is the first book to examine the full civil liberties records of each president (thus, placing a president's record on civil rights with his record on national security issues), and also to compare the performance on particular issues of all the presidents covered.
Das Handbuch ist vollständig als Open Access Publikation verfügbar.Dieses Handbuch bietet eine umfassende Analyse der Außenpolitik Österreichs in der Zweiten Republik. Es behandelt die ...Rahmenbedingungen, Akteure und Prozesse der Außenpolitik und erschließt deren Wesen und Wirkung in verschiedenen Politikbereichen sowie gegenüber einzelnen Ländern, Regionen und internationalen Organisationen. Das Handbuch ist ein Referenzwerk für die Forschung, ein Einführungswerk für die Lehre und ein Nachschlagewerk für die Praxis in Politik, Verwaltung und Zivilgesellschaft.
This article considers how section 116 of the Australian Constitution applies to executive power. Notwithstanding that the express terms of s 116 apply only to legislative power, we argue that s 116 ...should be interpreted to also limit the exercise of executive power. A literal interpretation would have the effect that the Commonwealth can circumvent a constitutional limitation on legislative power through the exercise of executive power and would undermine the fundamental constitutional principle of legislative supremacy. An implication that s 116 restricts executive power in the same fashion as legislative power enhances the coherence of the Constitution as creating an integral polity and eliminates disconnect between legislative power and executive power with respect to the same subject matter.
