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• 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)

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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)

• 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)

• Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Frederick Michael Dolan (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Our Enemy, The State, by Albert Jay Nock (PDF at mises.org)

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The Federalist: A Classic on Federalism and Free Government (originally published 1960; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Gottfried Dietze (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Inequality in Early America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c1999), ed. by Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Adams Federalists (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Manning Julian Dauer (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• State Documents on Federal Relations: The States and the United States (6 volumes; Philadelphia: Dept. of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1900-1906), ed. by Herman Vandenburg Ames (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Candice Lewis Bredbenner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870-1917 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Eleanor L. Hannah (PDF at Ohio State)

• Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870-1917 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Eleanor L. Hannah (PDF at Ohio State)

• Ballots of Tumult: A Portrait of Volatility in American Voting (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1991), by Courtney Brown (PDF with commentary at courtneybrown.com)

• The Story of Civil Liberty in the United States (New York: Vanguard Press, American Civil Liberties Union, c1927), by Leon Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the United States Capitol: A Chronicle of Design, Construction, and Politics, by William C. Allen (PDF files at gpo.gov)

• The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism (originally published 1978; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by David De Leon (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Color of Representation: Congressional Behavior and Black Interests (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Kenny J. Whitby (page images at HathiTrust)

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