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• The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War (2005), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary Democratic Staff (HTML and PDF files at house.gov)
• Twelve Steps to Restore Checks and Balances (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, 2008), by Aziz Z. Huq (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, the Death of Teddy's Bear, and the Sovereign Exception of Guantánamo (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Magnus Fiskesjö (PDF at prickly-paradigm.com)
• Between the Branches: The White House Office of Legislative Affairs (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), by Kenneth E. Collier (page images at Pitt)
• War Powers, Libya, and State-Sponsored Terrorism: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, April 29, May 1 and 15, 1986 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, 1961), by Richard E. Neustadt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Executive Orders and Proclamations: A Study of a Use of Presidential Powers (Washington: GPO, 1957), by United States House Committee on Government Operations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Presidential Agenda: Sources of Executive Influence in Congress (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Roger T. Larocca (PDF at Ohio State)
• Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (New York: Columbia University Press, 1916), by William H. Taft (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The War Powers of the President, and the Legislative Powers of Congress, in Relation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery (Boston: J. L. Shorey, 1862), by William Whiting (page images at MOA)
• The Strategy of Culture (1952), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Stuart Streichler (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Eagle's Talons: The American Experience at War (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1988), by Dennis M. Drew and Donald M. Snow
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Scott Douglas Gerber (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Stuart Streichler (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Stuart Streichler (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• AFA Notes (and predecessor newsletters; issues online 1973-1976), by Americans for Amnesty (partial serial archives)

• Command Crisis: MacArthur and the Korean War (Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History, #24; Colorado Springs, CO: U.S. Air Force Academy, 1982), by D. Clayton James (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Civil-Military Relations: New Issues, Enduring Problems (1995), by Douglas V. Johnson and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• Generals Over the White House (1980), by Sam Marcy (HTML at workers.org)
• Interagency Fratricide: Policy Failures in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2004), by Vicki J. Rast (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How to Fix Them (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, ca. 2002), ed. by John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman (PDF with commentary at fpri.org)

• Assessing the Potential for Civil-Military Integration: Selected Case Studies (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (current, unofficial online edition of the CFR), by United States (HTML with commentary at ecfr.gov)

• The Federal Register, by United States (full serial archives)
• Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition), by United States (partial serial archives)

• Executive Orders and Proclamations: A Study of a Use of Presidential Powers (Washington: GPO, 1957), by United States House Committee on Government Operations (page images at HathiTrust)

• War Powers, Libya, and State-Sponsored Terrorism: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, April 29, May 1 and 15, 1986 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The War Powers of the President, and the Legislative Powers of Congress, in Relation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery (Boston: J. L. Shorey, 1862), by William Whiting (page images at MOA)

• The Court vs. Congress: Prayer, Busing, and Abortion (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by Edward Keynes and Randall K. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Supreme Court on Trial (New York: Atherton Press, 1964), by Charles S. Hyneman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Administering Justice: Placing the Chief Justice in American State Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Richard L. Vining and Teena Wilhelm (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

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• The Growth of Executive Power in Germany: A Study of the German Presidency (Minneapolis: Voyageur Press, 1934), by Harlow James Heneman (page images at HathiTrust)

• International Security and Democracy: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Post-Cold War Era (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), ed. by Jorge I. Domínguez (page images at Pitt)

• Guarding the Guardians: Parliamentary Oversight and Civil-Military Relations: The Challenges for SADC (2004), ed. by Len Le Roux, Martin Revai Rupiya, and Naison Ngoma (PDF with commentary at issafrica.org)

• Civil-Military Relations in Zambia: A Review of Zambia's Contemporary CMR History and Challenges of Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (ca. 2004), ed. by Gilbert Chileshe, Margaret Chimanse, Naison Ngoma, Paul Lwando, and Tasila Mbewe (PDF files at Wayback Machine)

• The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific (2004), ed. by R. J. May and Viberto Selochan (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific (2004), ed. by R. J. May and Viberto Selochan (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Praetorian Politics in Liberal Spain, by Carolyn P. Boyd (PDF files at Libro)

• Ourselves to Know: Civil-Military Relations and Defence Transformation in Southern Africa (2002), ed. by Rocklyn Williams, Gavin Cawthra, and Diane Abrahams (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• Other Approaches to Civil-Military Integration: The Chinese and Japanese Arms Industries (OTA-BP-ISS-143; 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF at Georgetown)

• Humanitarian and Peace Operations: NGOs and the Military in the Interagency Process (1996), by Lisa Witzig Davidson, Margaret Daly Hayes, and James J. Landon (PDF at dodccrp.org)

• Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1997), by Philip J. Williams and Knut Walter (page images at Pitt)

• The Struggling State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization, and the Education of Eritrea (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c2016), by Jennifer Riggan (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• NATO Enlargement and Central Europe: A Study in Civil-Military Relations (1996), by Jeffrey Simon (page images at Google)

• The Powers of the Crown in Scotland, Being a Translation, With Notes and an Introductory Essay, of George Buchanan's "De Jure Regni Apud Scotos" (1949 translation), by George Buchanan, ed. by Charles Flinn Arrowood (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• Discourses Concerning Government; To Which Are Added, Memoirs of His life, and an Apology for Himself (third edition; London: Printed for A. Millar, 1751), by Algernon Sidney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Constitutional Reason of State: The Survival of the Constitutional Order (Providence: Brown University Press, 1957), by Carl J. Friedrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Diktatur, Von den Anfängen des Modernen Souveränitätsgedankens bis zum Proletarischen Klassenkampf (in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1921), by Carl Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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