Title: Preparing for the Hour of Need: Emergency Powers in the United States
Abstract: For two hundred years the United States, with its theory of the separation of powers, has presented a compelling argument on behalf of presidential government. In contrast to the parliamentary system alternative offered by Great Britain, the American credo posits that the surest preventive against tyrannical rule lies in the deliberate parceling out, rather than concentration, or fusion, of political power. Proof of its validity, insist proponents of the separated powers doctrine, has been demonstrated on numerous occasions, even—nay, especially—in times of national emergency.
Publication Year: 1979
Publication Date: 1979-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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