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Political scientist as practitioner / Fisher, Louis

Fisher, Louis	Journal Article
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2013.

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Those who write for this symposium faced two choices in their careers: producing highly specialized articles with little application to government controversies or devoting themselves to public policy and making contributions to it. They chose the latter. I want to explain my approach and also give recognition to the accomplishment of other scholars who have been engaged with contemporary issues. All of them are eminently comfortable in maintaining the original commitment of political science to public law. At the risk of overlooking deserving scholars, I also identify others who decided to orient their research to thinking about and helping to resolve government issues.

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Political Science ; Public Policy ; Political Scientist

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ID: 078764

State Secrets Privilege: Relying on Reynolds / Fisher, Louis

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2007.

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Louis Fisher analyzes the state secrets privilege, which permits the executive branch to withhold certain documents requested in litigation. In examining United States v. Reynolds (1953), the first Supreme Court case to recognize and uphold the privilege, he concludes that the decision presented an incoherent policy leading to judicial abdication and that the executive branch misled the Court on the content of key documents

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Security ; State Secrets Privilege ; National Security Ageny

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ID: 117541

Teaching the presidency: idealizing a constitutional office / Fisher, Louis

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2012.

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From World War II to the present, prominent scholars placed their hopes in the presidency to protect the nation from outside threats and deal effectively with domestic crises. Their theories weakened the constitutional system of separation of powers and checks and balances by reviving an outsized trust in executive power (especially over external affairs) that William Blackstone and others promoted in eighteenth-century England. The American framers of the Constitution studied those models with great care and fully rejected those precedents when they declared their independence from England.

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England ; Constitutional System ; William Blackstone ; American Framers ; World War II

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