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Author Posner, Eric A.

Title Terror in the balance : security, liberty, and the courts / Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  342.062 P843t 2007    ---  Available
Description 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-308) and index.
Contents Emergencies, tradeoffs, and deference -- The panic theory -- The democratic failure theory -- The ratchet theory and other long-run effects -- Institutional alternatives to judicial deference -- Coercive interrogation -- Speech, due process, and political trials -- Military force.
Subject War and emergency powers -- United States.
National security -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Civil rights -- United States.
Added Author Vermeule, Adrian, 1968-
ISBN 019531025X (cloth)
9780195310252 (cloth)

 
    
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