Christopher Paul Pyle

Extradition Politics & Human Rights

Three hundred years ago, few people cared about the murky past of new arrivals to the United States, and the countries they had left made few efforts to pursue them to their new home. Today with the growth of bureaucracy, telecommunications, and air travel, extradition has become a full-time busines...

The President, Congress, and the Constitution: Power and Legitimacy in American Politics

"This is a book about principles, politics, & power-constitutional principles & how they affect the power of the president, Congress, and the courts to decide some of the momentous issues of our time. The cases & materials examined here address fundamental questions about the authority of the United...

The Constitution Under Siege: Presidential Power Versus the Rule of Law

The Constitution Under Siege is a provocative teaching instrument that uses law, history, and politics to test what the law arguably ''is'' against assertions of what it ''ought'' to be. It examines the questionable impulses of presidents, members of Congress, the military, and intelligence agencies...

Getting Away with Torture: Secret Government, War Crimes, and the Rule of Law

That American forces should torture prisoners in their “war” on terror is disturbing, but more shocking still is that the highest officials of the Bush-Cheney administration planned, authorized, encouraged, and concealed these war crimes. When the Supreme Court ruled that the officials were bound by...

The law: Barack Obama and civil liberties.: An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly

This digital document is an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly, published by Center for the Study of the Presidency on December 1, 2012. The length of the article is 7361 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is a...

Christopher Pyle

Christopher H. Pyle (born 1939) is a Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. He is the author of several books and...

The President, Congress and the Constitution: Power and Legitimacy in American Politics

Military Surveillance of Civilian Politics, 1967-1970