Imbalance of Powers
Subtitle: Constitutional Interpretation and the Making of American Foreign Policy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 31, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195104776
First sentence: Responding to the growing power of a perceived "Imperial Presidency" at the end of the Vietnam War and in the aftermath of Watergate, a majority in Congress tried to follow the constitutional blueprint to rebalance the separation of powers by passing a number of laws that were designed to assert legislative authority in foreign policy.