War and Responsibility
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 6, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780691025520
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Constitutional & administrative law; International relations; War & defence operations; Legal System; History; Politics / Current Events; History: American; USA; Vietnam; Constitutional; United States - 20th Century; American History; History / United States / 20th Century; History-United States - 20th Century; Law; Law / Constitutional; Political Science and International Relations; Political Science-Legal System
First sentence: ONE of the recurrent discoveries of academic writing about constitutional law-an all but certain ticket to tenure-is that from the standpoint of twentieth-century observers, the "original understanding" of the document's framers and ratifiers can be obscure to the point of inscrutability.