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Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war? War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer a single legal answer to that question. But its structure and values indicate a vision of a well-functioning constitutional politics, one that enables the branches of government themselves to generate good answers to this question for the circumstances of their own times. Mariah Zeisberg shows that what matters is not that the branches enact the same constitutional settlement for all conditions, but instead how well they bring their distinctive governing capacities to bear on their interpretive work in context. Because the branches legitimately approach constitutional questions in different ways, interpretive conflicts between them can sometimes indicate a successful rather than deficient interpretive politics. Zeisberg argues for a set of distinctive constitutional standards for evaluating the branches and their relationship to one another, and she demonstrates how observers and officials can use those standards to evaluate the branches' constitutional politics. With cases ranging from the Mexican War and World War II to the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Iran-Contra scandal, War Powers reinterprets central controversies of war powers scholarship and advances a new way of evaluating the constitutional behavior of officials outside of the judiciary.

Separation of powers --- War and emergency powers --- History. --- American presidents. --- Cambodia. --- Cold War. --- Congress. --- Cuban Missile Crisis. --- Franklin Roosevelt. --- Iran-Contra Investigation. --- James Polk. --- John F. Kennedy. --- Mexican War. --- Munitions Investigation. --- Richard Nixon. --- Roosevelt Corollary. --- U.S. Constitution. --- World War II. --- bombing. --- constitutional authority. --- constitutional interpretation. --- constitutional politics. --- constitutional theory. --- constitutional war powers. --- insularism. --- interbranch deliberation. --- interpretive politics. --- investigatory power. --- legislative investigation. --- legislature. --- partisanship. --- presidential acts. --- relational conception. --- security order. --- settlement theory. --- war authority. --- war power. --- war powers. --- United States --- History

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This book presents an important new account of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Closed Commercial State, a major early nineteenth-century development of Rousseau and Kant's political thought. Isaac Nakhimovsky shows how Fichte reformulated Rousseau's constitutional politics and radicalized the economic implications of Kant's social contract theory with his defense of the right to work. Nakhimovsky argues that Fichte's sequel to Rousseau and Kant's writings on perpetual peace represents a pivotal moment in the intellectual history of the pacification of the West. Fichte claimed that Europe could not transform itself into a peaceful federation of constitutional republics unless economic life could be disentangled from the competitive dynamics of relations between states, and he asserted that this disentanglement required transitioning to a planned and largely self-sufficient national economy, made possible by a radical monetary policy. Fichte's ideas have resurfaced with nearly every crisis of globalization from the Napoleonic wars to the present, and his book remains a uniquely systematic and complete discussion of what John Maynard Keynes later termed "national self-sufficiency." Fichte's provocative contribution to the social contract tradition reminds us, Nakhimovsky concludes, that the combination of a liberal theory of the state with an open economy and international system is a much more contingent and precarious outcome than many recent theorists have tended to assume.

Republicanism --- Social contract --- Commercial policy --- State, The --- Political science --- Foreign trade policy --- International trade --- International trade policy --- Trade policy --- Economic policy --- International economic relations --- Administration --- Commonwealth, The --- Sovereignty --- Social compact --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Sociology --- History --- Government policy --- Kant, Immanuel, --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, --- Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, --- Political and social views. --- Adam Smith. --- Closed Commercial State. --- Emmanuel-Joseph Sieys. --- European states system. --- French Revolution. --- Immanuel Kant. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Johann Gottlieb Fichte. --- Perpetual Peace. --- Rousseau. --- The Closed Commercial State. --- commerce. --- constitutional politics. --- constitutional theory. --- constitutionalism. --- division of labor. --- economic relations. --- equality. --- finance. --- global trade. --- individual liberty. --- international relations. --- market society. --- modern finance. --- monetary policy. --- monetary system. --- national economy. --- national self-sufficiency. --- peace. --- perpetual peace. --- planned economy. --- political economy. --- political thought. --- property rights. --- social contract theory. --- state formation. --- theory of the state.