Bruce Ackerman

Bruce Ackerman is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author of numerous books on political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy. His most recent book is the third in his multivolume constitutional history, We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution (2014). (November 2017)

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Trump and War Powers

It is one thing to allow the president to assert that congressional authorizations of 2001 and 2002 justify military action against a variety of terrorist groups. It is another for Congress to permit Trump to launch a preemptive nuclear attack that could lead to global annihilation.

November 28, 2017

Private Manning’s Humiliation

April 28, 2011 issue

An ‘Emergency Constitution’?

October 19, 2006 issue

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