Nurturing the Imperial Presidency: a How-to Manual in Eight Essays
In: Theory Workshop 1
In: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004405882
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- 1 The Moral and Procedural Structure of Declarations of War -- An Introduction -- 1 A Brief Overview of the Theory of Speech Acts 5 -- 2 Charles v of France, the Wise, and the Congress of the United States -- 3 Perceptual Issues: Legislative Capacities and Incapacities -- 4 Definitional Issues: a Lexical vs. a Performative Definition -- 4.1 War as a Performative Speech Act -- 5&eemsp;The Four and a Half Lexical Declarations of War in American History -- 5.1 Absolute vs. Conditional Declarations of War -- 5.2 Reasoned vs. Unreasoned Declarations of War -- 5.3 The Organizational Capacity and Incapacity for Declaring War -- 2 Executive War Making from George H. W. Bush to Gilgamesh -- Invariant State Practice -- 1 An Elected Constitutional Monarch -- 2 An Invariant State Practice -- 3 Explaining the Rise of Elected Constitutional Monarchies: the "Power of the Purse" -- 4 From Majesty to Sovereignty -- 5 Primus Inter Pars -- 6 Parsing Sovereignty -- 7 Conclusion: Imagining an Alternative after Five Thousand Years -- 3 The Congressional Incapacity to Declare War -- Legislative Sins of Omission vs. Executive Sins of Commission -- 1 Two Examples of War Making Procedures in Kingless Assemblies -- 1.1 The Second Continental Congress -- 1.2 The Security Council -- 2 War and Non-War: Two Examples of Congressional Incapacity -- 2.1 Non-Authorization by the 112th Congress -- 2.2 Authorization by the 107th Congress -- 3 James Madison and the Power to Declare War -- 3.1 The War of 1812: Sins of Commission and Sins of Omission -- 4 Conclusion -- 4 Defining War and the Declaring of War -- Performative Speech Acts and Ontological Guillotines -- 1 Part 1: Declarations as Performative Speech Acts -- 1.1 Defining the Indefinable -- 1.1.1 Defining "Armed Conflict"? -- 1.2 Codependency: the Speech Act Character of War -- 1.2.1 Three Thought Experiments -- 1.2.2 Rule of Law and the Outlawing of War -- 1.2.3 Erasing the Codependent Relationship -- 1.2.4 An Imperfect "Perfect" -- 2 Part 2: Declarations as Ontological Guillotines: Transforming the Subjective into the Objective -- 2.1 Functional Equivalent Ways to Declare War -- 2.1.1 Positively Missing the Point -- 5 The Declaring of War as a Conflict Resolution Strategy -- 1 The Shortcomings of Hague Convention III -- 2 Unconditional Cynicism and Bad Faith -- 3 Parliamentary vs. Executive Decision-Making: the Decision Is the Declaration vs. the Decision Is Not the Declaration -- 4 The Jus Fetiale : Procedural Justice Sustains Substantive Justice -- 6 The United Nation's Security Council -- >An "Original Understanding" vs. "Original Intentions" -- 1 Original Irrelevance: Perceiving a Separation of Powers -- 1.1 John Yoo's "Original Understanding" -- 1.2 Arthur Schlesinger, "Original Intent," and "Collective Judgment" -- 2 Searching for Suitable Textual Models -- 2.1 The Security Council and the Exercise of a Functionally Equivalent Power to Declare War -- 3 Conclusion -- 7 A Monarchial vs. a Republican Constitution -- Misplacing Ends and Means -- 1 Constitutional Symmetry: the Road Not Taken -- 2 Procedural Legitimacy and the Ontology of Policy Ends and Means -- 2.1 The Ontology of a Procedurally Legitimate Declaration of Policy Ends in a Republic -- 2.2 The Ontology of a Procedurally Legitimate Ordering of Policy Means in a Republic -- 3 Conclusion -- 8 Ends and Means or Checks and Balance? -- Obscuring Agency by Authorizing War in the Unites States and Europe -- 1 Clausewitz on War -- 2 The Just-Interaction Criteria -- 3 The Federal Convention of 1787 -- 4 Obscuring Agency by Authorizing War in the Unites States and Europe -- Appendices -- Appendix A The Declaration of Independence and Twelve Congressional Declarations of War -- Appendix B British Declaration of War against France, 7 May 1689 -- Appendix C Two Modern, Procedurally Imperfect Declarations of War -- Appendix D A Model Constitutional Amendment -- Appendix E A Joint Resolution to Establish a Joint Congressional Drafting Committee of 20xx -- Appendix F Re-evaluating the Traditional Just- War Criteria -- Bibliography -- Index.