The US Executive’s prerogative
one milestone, two rival perspectives
Keywords:
Executive Prerogative, Constitutionalism, Emergency, Checks and Balances, United StatesAbstract
The discussions of the United States executive prerogative can be traced back to both the Founding Fathers’ Constitutional debates, the checks and balances, and Locke’s contribution to this concept and to the expansion and employment of this power by presidential hands in emergency times. Nonetheless, the Twin Towers attack brought a new impetus to prerogative disputes, considering the concession and extension of powers transferred to the executive after the episode and its intensive use at domestic level. This study briefly introduces analytical models of the prerogative, before and after September 11, by means of two rival perspectives. On the one hand, the extralegal or Lockean extra-constitutional approach and, on the other, its critiques’.
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