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• ONLINE
  • General
  • Thinktank and foundation reports
  • Other online sources
    
    
  • OTHER HELPFUL ARTICLES/BOOKS

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern, neither external nor internal controls in government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity for auxiliary precautions. — James Madison, Federalist Papers 51 (1788)

ONLINE

General

These sources are available online through the UC Berkeley library system's homepage. To access these resources off campus, you will need to point to the CalNet proxy server on your browser (instructions here). The links below are to the websites themselves. If you want to access them off campus, you will need to access them through the UC Berkeley library's Electronic Resources portal to take advantage of the university's electronic subscriptions for authorized users.

National Journal Group's Policy Central
Government research corporation weekly. Provides comprehensive review of current events with in-depth news reports. Focuses on American politics at the federal level. "Opinion Outlook" section gives results of opinion polls on questions of current interest.

Note: Hard copy of National Journal available at Doe and IGS Library. Call number: JK1.N28 (Doe); A8661 (IGS Library).

CQ Researcher
A weekly publication covering the most current and controversial issues.

CQ Weekly
Provides nonpartisan information about US government and congressional affairs and subjects of concern. This online version also provides access to some articles prior to when they appear in the print version of CQ Weekly.

Lexis/Nexis Academic
Provides full text news from major papers (New York Times, Washington Post) and major magazines (New Yorker, New Republic, Time, Newsweek, etc.). Note: You can also access congressional hearings and other congressional documents at Lexis/Nexis Congressional.

Expanded Academic ASAP
1980-present. Indexes over 3000 journals and magazines from all fields with full-text for about 1000 titles.

Thinktank and Foundation Reports

Be careful using these sources. Some may be quite biased, but they may get your juices running and provide a good way to frame your argument.

PolicyFile
Gateway to text and websites for policy documents from many research organizations and think tanks (including RAND, Brookings, American Enterprise Institute, Cato, ACLU)

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Other online sources

News War
Two interviews on Frontline discussing the question: "Where is the line between legitimate national security concerns and the public's right to know?"

• Interview with Bill Keller, editor, New York Times — His face-to-face meeting with President Bush about the NSA wiretapping story
• Interview with John McLaughlin, former deputy director, CIA — How the NSA wiretapping story damaged the intelligence community's ability to "connect the dots"

House Judiciary Committee Panel Probing Bush's Record on Signing Statement

• Boston Globe report, February 1, 2007
• NPR report

Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
"Exercising Congress's Constitutional Power to End a War," January 30, 2007

Louis Fisher, "Signing Statements: What to Do?"

Steven Calabresi and Daniel Lev, "The Legal Significance of Presidential Signing Statements"

OTHER HELPFUL ARTICLES/BOOKS (on reserve at Moffitt)

Michael Glennon, Constitutional Diplomacy

David Gray Adler and Larry George (editors), The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy

Gordon Silverstein, Imbalance of Powers: Constitutional Interpretation and the Making of American Foreign Policy

Christopher Kelley, Executing the Constitution: Putting the President Back into the Constitution (chapter on signing statements)

Harold Hongju Koh, The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power after the Iran-Contra Affair

John Yoo, War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror (chapter on the NSA and wiretapping)
(Note: This title is on order.)

John Yoo, The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11

Also: The latest issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 37, No. 1) is devoted to presidential war power. Below is the table of contents. This journal is available online through Melvyl or Pathfinder, which will link you to Blackwell Synergy, the company that offers the UC Berkeley subscription for the journal.

"Invoking Inherent Powers: A Primer"
LOUIS FISHER pages 1-22

"Presidential Authority to Gather Foreign Intelligence"
BRUCE FEIN pages 23-36

"Inherent Presidential Power and Constitutional Structure"
NEIL KINKOPF, pages 37-48

"The Commander in Chief and the Courts"
JULES LOBEL pages 49-65

"Inherent War and Executive Powers and Prerogative Politics"
RICHARD M. PIOUS, pages 66-84

"Taking the Prerogative out of the Presidency: An Originalist Perspective"
JACK N. RAKOVE pages 85-100

"Presidential Power and National Security"
ABRAHAM D. SOFAER, pages 101-123

"The Law: Presidential Inherent Power: The ‘Sole Organ’ Doctrine"
LOUIS FISHER, pages 139-152

Also see:

• Louis Fisher, Presidential War Power (assigned book for this course)
• readings in your packet (Harvey Mansfield's defense of executive prerogative and Cass Sunstein's review of John Yoo's book)

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