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| Title: | From Chinese Exclusion to Guantánamo Bay
: Plenary Power & the Prerogative State |
| Author: | Natsu Taylor Saito |
| ISBN: | 0870818511 : 9780870818516 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 497 |
| Weight: | .802 Kg. |
| Published: | University Press of Colorado - October 2006 |
| List Price: | 23.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | International human rights law: USA: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT |
This study details historic applications of the plenary power doctrine, in which US courts allow the executive branch full power over groups of citizens without concomitant constitutional protection, showing that expansions of power aren't unique to the Bush administration but part of a troubling tradition that, according to the author, undermines American principles and may violate international human rights law.
Introduction; An Authority Unchallengeable and Complete: Planetary Power Over Immigrants, American Indians and External US Colonies; Silencing the Constitution: the Japanese American Internment and Redress; Military Necessity? The World War II Internment of Japanese Latin Americans; History Repeats Itself: The Racing of Arab Americans as the Enemy; Force Trumps Law After September 11: Disappearances, Detentions, and Deportations; The War on Terror; Who - or What - is Being Protected?
