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An essential guide to the presidential powers and limits of the Constitution, for anyone voting -- or running -- for our highest office.Can the president launch a nuclear attack without congressional approval? Is it ever a crime to criticize the president? Can states legally resist a president's executive order? In today's fraught political climate, it often seems as if we must become constitutional law scholars just to understand the news from Washington, let alone make a responsible decision at the polls.The Oath and the Office is the book we need, right now and into the future, whether we are voting for or running to become president of the United States. Constitutional law scholar and political science professor Corey Brettschneider guides us through the Constitution and explains the powers -- and limits -- that it places on the presidency.
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COREY BRETTSCHNEIDER is professor of political science at Brown University, where he teaches courses in political theory and constitutional law. He has been a visiting professor at several law schools, including The University of Chicago, Fordham, and Harvard. Brettschneider was also a fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values and the Harvard Safra Center for Ethics. Brettschneider received a PhD in Politics from Princeton University and a JD from Stanford University. He is the author of Democratic Rights: The Substance of Self-Government (Princeton University Press, 2007) , When the State Speaks, What Should it Say? (Princeton University Press, 2012) , and Constitutional Law and American Democracy (Wolters Kluwer/Aspen 2011) .
