The American Presidency

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.03.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Essential Questions
  5. Background to War Powers
  6. Strategies
  7. Activities
  8. Works Cited
  9. Appendix A
  10. Endnotes

The American President and War Powers: Combatting views

Sonia M. Henze

Published September 2012

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Appendix A

Resources

Simulation: To Intervene or remain isolationist http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/intervene-or-interfere/?scp=1&sq=intervene%20or%20interfere?&st=cse

http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/110/lob041008.htm

Jules Lobel, University of Pittsburgh Law School

http://www.teachablemoment.org/high/dronewarfare.html Obama bombing Libya http://www.teachablemoment.org/high.html

http://www.loc.gov/law/help/war-powers.php Library of Congress resources

Ackerman, Bruce. The Decline and Fall of the American Republic. Cambridge, Mass. The Belknap Press of Harvard University. 2010. Opinionated essays from the Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Presidential expansion of power is seen as part of a greater constitutional crisis. Explores concerns with the war on terror.

Brinkley, Alan and Davis Dyer, ed. The American Presidency; The Authoritative Reference. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Print. Enlightening essays on every president through George W. Bush authored by different experts.

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/ratification/timeline-essfed.html Essential Federalist Papers

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/sept11/cr_010.asp George W. Bush Congressional approval to

carry out war on terror

http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/5a2c.html Smithsonian interactive

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GOVMAN-2009-09-15/pdf/GOVMAN-2009-09-15-Pg5.pdf US government manual with the Constitution

http://whitehousetapes.net/content/classroom/ access to actual presidential recordings

Links to all letters and debate http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=429 Constitutional Convention Debates

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