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Too Close To The Rack And The Screw: Constitutional Constraints On Torture In The War On Terror, Seth F. Kreimer
Too Close To The Rack And The Screw: Constitutional Constraints On Torture In The War On Terror, Seth F. Kreimer
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The Implications Of Transition Theory For Stare Decisis, Jill E. Fisch
The Implications Of Transition Theory For Stare Decisis, Jill E. Fisch
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The Unitary Executive During The Second Half-Century, Steven G. Calabresi, Christopher S. Yoo
The Unitary Executive During The Second Half-Century, Steven G. Calabresi, Christopher S. Yoo
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Recent Supreme Court decisions and political events have reinvigorated the debate over Congress's authority to restrict the President's control over the administration of the law. The initial debate focused on whether the Constitutional Convention rejected the executive by committee employed by the Articles of the Confederation in favor of a unitary executive in which all administrative authority is centralized in the President. More recently, the debate has turned towards historical practices. Some scholars have suggested that independent agencies and special counsels have become such established features of the constitutional landscape as to preempt arguments in favor of the ...