Constitutional Commentary articles from March 2002

Constitutional Commentary archives from March 2002

Youngstown: pages from the book of disquietude.(President Truman's 1952 seizure of US steel mills)
March 22, 2002... This essay is dedicated to Lloyd N. Cutler INTRODUCTION The Youngstown holding is widely admired. One reads with pride those passages in which the Supreme Court denies to a president with whom they are in considerable political...

The price of experience: the Constitution after September 11, 2001.(President Truman's 1952 seizure of US steel mills)
March 22, 2002... What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price Of all a man hath, his house, his wife, his children. Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where...

The steel seizure case: one of a kind? (Youngstown at fifty: a symposium).(President Truman's 1952 seizure of US steel mills)
March 22, 2002... By confronting President Harry Truman and striking down his effort to seize the steel mills needed to prosecute the Korean War, (1) the Supreme Court adhered to its longstanding practice of accepting and deciding cases dealing with the war...

Executive power in Youngstown's shadows.(President Truman's 1952 seizure of US steel mills)
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION "We can hardly expect that the lasting outgrowth of the steel controversy will be the Youngstown case." (1) This projection captures the sentiment of much of the early academic commentary (2) on the Supreme Court's decision...

The steel seizure case and inherent presidential power.(President Truman's 1952 seizure of US steel mills)
March 22, 2002... The historic American debate on the nature and scope of executive authority, punctuated and dramatized by the renowned eighteenth-century exchange between James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, (2) and spiked in our time by sweeping assertions...

Youngstown goes to war. (President Truman's seizure of US steel mills)
March 22, 2002... I. THE ENDURING SIGNIFICANCE OF YOUNGSTOWN In the spring of 2001--before the war came--the student editors of the Minnesota Law Review were casting about ideas for a symposium topic for 2002. I suggested an issue commemorating the fiftieth...

Military tribunals and legal culture: what a difference sixty years makes.
March 22, 2002... President Bush's Military Order of November 13, 2001 established a legal framework to enable military commissions to try terrorists associated with the attacks of September 11, 2001 on Washington, DC, and New York City. (1) This Military Order...