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Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on Terrorism.(Book review)

Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 01-DEC-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on Terrorism. By Louis Fisher. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. 279 pp.

As new revelations continue to slowly emerge about the Bush administration's centralization of executive power since the 9/11 terror...

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...attacks, debates continue to rage about the propriety of such an approach to the ongoing threat of terrorism. While the Supreme Court's recent decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld is the latest salvo, Louis Fisher's Military Tribunals and Presidential Power also should occupy an important place, for it provides valuable historical and theoretical context to judicial decisions such as Hamdan and the ongoing debates over how the United States should detain and try suspected terrorists.

Fisher's latest effort provides an eminently clear, comprehensive account of the evolution...

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