Hansen and Friedman (both New England School of Law) began with a discussion over lunch, then moved to a series of essays published in the on-line journal The Jurist, expanded their research
into secret evidence and emergency power, and now produce this volume. Trying to take a purely doctrinal, non-partisan approach, they find that the Bush administration's policies and actions
regarding The Global War on Terrorism, lacked constitutional support. They make the legal case for the national legislature in authorizing and supervising the defense of the nation against
terrorists and maintaining national security. The resulting policies may be not better, they say, but can hardly be worse, and at least will have the virtue of democratic legitimacy. Annotation
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