Presidential Power and Congressional Acquiescence in the “War” on Terrorism: A New Constitutional Equilibrium?

Politics and Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 258-303

  Owens, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

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