Balance of power
By: James W. Huston
Edition: 1st Avon Books printing.
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780380731596
Subjects: Presidents; Legislators; Fiction
Description: An American president refuses to attack Indonesia for a terrorist hit on a U.S. ship, so Congress goes over his head and an aircraft carrier strikes. A look at the Letters of Marque and Reprisal, a little-known law which empowers Congress to do this.