The Communitarian Constitution

By Beau Breslin

Book Overview

A specialist in constitutional law and civil liberties, Breslin (Skidmore College) first sets out the 1861 case in which Lincoln suspended habeus corpus on the basis of national security, and the US Supreme Court determined that the president has no such constitutional authority. Then he uses it to explain the tension between communitarians who bel

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801877822
• ISBN13: 9780801877827
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher