by John Yoo
"The Machiavellian Moment" (Pocock), 3
Maclay, William, 81
Macon's Bill Number 2, 139
Madison, Dolley, 142
Madison, James, 14-15, 19-22, 24, 26-30, 33-34, 38, 50, 57-61, 64-65, 73, 76, 83, 88-91, 100-101, 103-104, 106, 111, 114, 120, 127, 137-143, 147-148, 161-162, 198, 206, 350, 361, 435, 437
Maine, 271
Malone, Dumas, 128
Malta, 112
"Manifest Destiny," 198
Mansfield, Harvey C., Jr., 3-4, 51
Mapp v. Ohio, 387
Marbury v. Madison, 45, 66, 104-105, 109
Marshall, George, 382
Marshall, John, 10, 109-110, 126-127, 155-157, 162, 179, 291
Marshall Plan, 335, 340
Maryland, 209-210, 224
Massachusetts, 11, 14-16, 22, 33-34, 61
Mason, George, 26, 36
Matsu, 345
Mayer, David, 101
McCain, John, 436
McClellan, George, 195, 202, 215-216, 242
McCardle, William, 235
McCardle petition, 235
McCarthy, Joe, 382
McCulloch v. Maryland, 65, 162
McDonald, Forrest, 3, 57, 63
McDougall, Walter, 332
McDowell, Irvin, 215
McFarlane, Robert, 357-358
McGovern, George, 434
McKinley, William, ix McKitrick, Eric, 82
McLane, Louis, 171
McReynolds, James, 266
Meade, George, 195
Meltzer, Allan, 261 "Memorandum on Probable Failure of Re-election," 242
Merryman, John, 209-210, 228, 230
Mexican-American War, 192-197, 405, 412
Mexico, 150, 192-198, 412
Mexico City, Mexico, 195-196
Military Commission Act, 414, 416
Militia Act, 69-70, 187, 208, 218
Milkis, Sidney, ix
Milligan, Lambdin, 233-234
Miranda warning, 387
Mississippi, 150
Missouri, 147, 217, 224
Missouri Compromise, 147, 214-215
Mitchell, John, 383
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh, 440-441
Monetary History of the United States (Friedman and Schwartz), 260
Monroe, James, 115, 117-119, 127, 137-138, 147, 150-152, 158, 162
Montesquieu, Baron de La Brede et de, xv, 3, 5-6, 17, 20, 24, 31, 36, 89
Morehead v. Tipaldo, 270, 273
Morgenthau, Henry, 322-323
Morocco, 111
Morris, Gouverneur, 14, 22, 24, 29-31, 95, 434
Morris, Robert, 63
Morrison v. Olson, 379-380
Mossadegh, Mohammed, 345
Moultrie, William, 74-75
Moussaoui, Zacarias, 441
Murphy, Frank, 314, 319
Mutual Defense Treaty, 419
Myers v. United States, 279-280
N
NAFTA, 180
Nagasaki, Japan, 337
Nanjing, China, 297
Napoleon, 120, 130, 141-142
Napoleonic Wars, x, xix, 117, 360
Nasser, Gamal, 347-348
National Economic Council, 367
National Emergencies Act, 373
National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA), 263-264, 266-268
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), 266, 269, 272, 273
National Labor Relations Board, 281
National Recovery Administration, 262, 266-269, 277
National Republicans, 164, 169
National Security Act, 344, 367, 441-444
National Security Council, 343, 367
National Security Decision Directive 75, 355
Nazis, 296, 304
Nazi Saboteurs case, 311-315
Neeley, Mark, 233
Neustadt, Richard, xii, 364, 399-400
Neutrality Acts, 295, 296-297, 300, 306, 310, 328
Neutrality Proclamation, 71, 88-90, 100, 118, 417, 419
Nevada, 196
"Newburgh Conspiracy," 34
New Deal, 59, 258-288, 325, 327, 329, 363-365, 387, 404-405, 418, 431
New Hampshire, 14-15
The New Imperial Presidency (Rudalevige), viii, 399
New Jersey Plan, 21-22 "New Look" strategy, 333, 344-345, 355
New Mexico, 193-194, 196
New Orleans, Louisiana, 11, 115, 117, 119, 142, 145, 147
New York City, New York, vii, 13, 56, 115
New York Herald, 235
New York State, 13-16, 21-22, 25, 33-34, 61
New York Times, 234, 302
New York Tribune, 241
New Zealand, 345
Nicaragua, 355, 357
Nicholas, George, 50
Nicholas, William Cary, 121
Nixon, Richard, x, xi, xx, 46, 330-331, 333, 352-354, 363, 366, 371, 373-374, 383-385, 390-392, 398, 400, 407, 409-410, 417-418, 423, 430-431, 437-438
Nixon v. United States, 389
NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., 273
Nonintercourse Act, 138
Norfolk, Virginia, 115
North, Oliver, 357-358
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 332, 335, 339-340, 345, 360
North Carolina, 150
North Korea, 343, 430, 433
Northwest Territory, 77-79, 92, 118
NSC-68, 335-336, 338, 344, 349, 354
NSC 162/2, 344
Nullification Crisis, 148
Nuremburg trials, 311
O
Obama, Barak, 416, 429-444
O'Connor, Sandra Day, 392-393
Ohio Democrats, 230-232
Oklahoma, 157
Olmstead v. United States, 323
Olson, Theodore, 379
Operation Rolling Thunder, 351
Oregon territory, 191
Ottoman Empire, 111
P
"Pacificus." See Hamilton, Alexander Paine, Thomas, 12
Pakistan, 345, 430
Palin, Sarah, 436
Paludan, Philip, 216
Panic of 1819, 163-164
Paraguay, 290
Parliament (Great Britain), 5-9
Paris peace talk, 352
Parsons, Theophilus, 15-16
Peace of WestphaliPearl Harbor, 289, 309-310, 412, 438
Pennsylvania, 14-15, 34, 39, 41-42
Pensacola, Florida, 151-152
Perry, Oliver Hazard, 141-142
Persian Gulf War, 359-360
Petrograd Metal Works, 292
Phelps, Glenn, 66
Philadelphia Convention. See Constitutional Convention Philippines, 309
Pickering, John, 108-109
Pickett, George, 195
Pierce, Franklin, 437
Pinckney, Charles, 22, 24, 26, 28
Plessy v. Ferguson, 368, 396
Pocock, J.G.A., 3
Poindexter, John, 357-358
Poland, 334
Polk, James, xvi, 178, 191-198, 412, 437
Potsdam conference, 334
Powell, Lewis, 391, 393
The Power of the American
Presidency (Genovese), 33
Powers, Gary, 348
The Powers of War (Yoo, John), viii Power without Persuasion (Howell), 399
Prakash, Sai, 82
president. See executive branch
Presidential Power (Neustadt), 399
Presidential Records Act, 374
Privacy Act, 374
The Prize Cases, 212
Profiles in Courage (Kennedy, John F.), 253
Progressive Era, 265
Prohibition, 132
Protect American Act, 414
Public Utility Holding Company
Act (PUHCA), 266
Publius. See Hamilton, Alexander
Q
Quemoy, 345
R
Radical Republicans, 235, 238-248, 410
Rakove, Jack, 1, 28
Ramsey, Michael, 82
Randall, J. G., 233
Randolph, Edmund, 20-21, 41-42, 65, 68-69, 85-86
Reagan, Ronald, xvi, 329-330, 333-334, 353-359, 364, 366-367, 370, 372, 375, 377-380, 389, 391-392, 400, 421, 429-432, 438
Reagan Doctrine, 345, 355, 397
Reconstruction, 203, 234-248, 332, 368, 403, 410, 437
Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, 261, 303
Red Scare, 381-382
Reed, Stanley, 275
Rehnquist, William H., xvii, 352, 377, 379, 391-393
Remini, Robert V., 169, 185
Republican Party, 103, 105, 126-137, 169, 202, 204
Resurgence of Congress (Sundquist), 399
Revolutionary War, xv, 2, 9, 53, 123-124, 145, 178, 229, 291, 311, 401-402
Richardson, Elliot, 371
Roberts, Owen, 267, 273, 314, 319
Roberts Commission, 316
Roe v. Wade, 389-390
"the Room," 323
Roosevelt, Franklin D., ix, xvi, 42, 97, 99, 257-328, 329-330, 365, 373, 388-389, 401-403, 408-410, 413, 421-424, 426, 429-432, 438, 442
Roosevelt, Theodore, ix, x, xvi, 401, 438
Rossiter, Clinton, xiii, 31, 201
Rudalevige, Andrew, viii, 10, 399
Rush, Benjamin, 128
Russia. See Soviet Union Rutledge, John, 22
S
San Jacinto, Battle of, 153
Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de, 155, 194
Santo Domingo, 117 "Saturday Night Massacre," 371
Savage, Charlie, viii, 399
Savannah, Georgia, 245
Scalia, Antonin, 1, 379-380, 392
Schechter Poultry v. United States, 267-268, 280
Schelling, Thomas, 47
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., xiii, 32-33, 201, 336, 339, 399
Schmitt, Gary, 101, 125
Schwartz, Anna, 260
Scott, Winfield, 194
Scott (Dred) v. Sanford, 109, 203-204, 209-211, 228, 235, 268, 319, 396
SEATO, 345
Second Bank of the United States, 161-179
Second New Deal, 269
Second Treatise of Government (Locke), 4
Security and Exchange Commission, 277
Sedition Act, 106-107, 181, 206, 358, 417
Seidman, Guy, 118, 122
Seminole Indians, 150-151 1783
Peace Treaty, 11, 15
Seven Years' War, 9, 116
Seward, William, 214, 225
Shay's Rebellion, 11, 68-71
Sherman, Roger, 21, 24, 26
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 215, 217, 242, 245
Shultz, George, 366 "Sick Children" case, 267, 270, 273
Sinai Peninsula, 347
Skowronek, Stephen, ix, 408
Slidell, John, 192
Smoot-Hawley Act, 261
Social Security Act (SSA), 266, 269, 274
Social Statics (Spencer), 266
Sofaer, Abraham, 112
South Carolina, 27, 180-189, 217
South Carolina Exposition and Protest, 181
South Korea, 345, 362
Soviet Union, xix, 141, 292, 297, 329-363, 396-398, 402, 404, 409, 419, 443
Spain, 11, 47, 117, 149-158
Spanish-American War, 332
Spencer, Herbert, 266
Spirit of Laws (Montesquieu), 5
Stalin, Joseph, 326, 337-338
Stanton, Edwin, 216, 218, 252
Star Chamber, 270
Starr, Kenneth, 380
"Star Spangled Banner," 142
St. Clair, Arthur, 77-78, 80, 93
Steel Seizure case. See Youngstown
Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer Sterett, Andrew, 112-113
Stimson, Henry, 298, 312, 316-317
Stone, Harlan Fiske, 267, 314-315
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties, 359
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 354-355
Stuart Kings, 7-8
Suez, 334
Suez Canal, 347
Summers, Hatton, 272
Sundquist, James, 399
Sunshine Act, 374
Sunstein, Cass, 67
Supreme Court. See U.S. Supreme Court
Sutherland, George, 266, 270, 280, 290-293, 300
Switzerland, 21
Syria, 348
T
Taft, Robert, 318, 336, 339
Taft, William Howard, 279-280
Taft-Hartley labor law, 341
Taiwan, 74, 334, 345-346, 419
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency (Savage), viii, 399
Taliban, 419, 429
Tampico, Mexico, 196 "Tamony," 37
Taney, Roger, 160, 172, 175, 178, 209-211, 227-229
Tariff of 1824, 179-189
Taylor, Zachary, 192-193, 195, 352
Tecumseh, 139
Tehuantepec, Mexico, 196
Tennessee, 150
Tennessee Valley Authority, 282
Tenure of Office Act, 252-253
Terrorist Surveillance Program, 422
The Terror Presidency (Goldsmith), viii, 399
Tet Offensive, 351-352
Texas, 150, 152-153, 190-195
Thach, Charles, 14, 21
Thailand, 306
"Thermidorian" reaction, 17
Thirty Years' War, 360
Thomas, Clarence, 1
Timberlake, Peggy. See Eaton, Peggy Timberlake Tonkin Gulf Resolution, 351, 412
Trachtenberg, Marc, 306-307
Trading with the Enemy Act, 263 "Trail of Tears," 157 treason, xi
Treaty of Alliance, 84
Treaty of Ghent, 150
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 196
Treaty of Versailles, 295, 438
Trenchard, John, 9
Tripoli, 111-112, 114
Trist, Nicholas, 196
Truman, Harry S., xii, xvi, xviii, 74, 329-330, 333-334, 339-341, 343-346, 353, 361, 368, 370, 381-382, 410, 415, 421, 442-443
"Truman Doctrine," 335-336, 340
Tucker, Robert, 130
Tunis, 111, 114
Turkey, 335, 340, 345, 350
Tyler, John, 192
Type I /II errors, 326
U
Uniform Code of Military Justice, 311
United Arab Republic, 348
United Nations, 326, 336, 411
United States v. Belmont, 292
United States v. Butler, 269
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation, 290-291, 300
United States v. Nardone, 324
United States v. Nixon, 384
University of Virginia, 99
U.S. Attorney General, 68, 71
U.S. Bureau of the Budget, 284, 366
U.S. Congress, xiii, 5-6, 11, 20-32, 35-36, 50, 60, 62-66, 69, 74-81, 88-91, 103, 109, 121-122, 146, 189, 208, 211, 216, 341-342, 369-370, 377-379
U.S. Constitution: Admissions Clause, 121-122; Appointments Clause, 32, 394-395, 415-416; Article I, 28, 35, 208, 210, 265; Article II, 28, 35, 43, 54, 59-60, 67, 88, 90, 122, 378, 415, 425-426, 443; Article IV, 118, 121; Bill of Rights, 58, 138, 275, 387; challenges to, xi; checks and balances, xiii-xiv, 39, 49-50; Commander-in-Chief Clause, 220; Due Process Clause, 270, 273, 387; Equal Protection Clause, 318, 368, 387; executive powers (see executive branch, executive powers); federalism, 19-20, 24; Fifth Amendment, 217, 384; First Amendment, 387; Fourteenth Amendment, 250-252, 265-266, 387-388; Fourth Amendment, 133, 323, 373, 413; Fugitive Slave Clause, 207; Interstate Commerce Clause, 265; Necessary and Proper Clause, 58, 65, 162; ratification process, 32-51, 54; Reconstruction Amendments, 249, 254, 288; self-preservation, 202; separation of powers, xiii, xviii, 6, 24, 36, 44, 241, 388; Sixth Amendment, 313; Supremacy Clause, 89, 183; Suspension Clause, 210, 227-228; Take Care Clause, 35, 45, 67, 69, 210, 282; Tenth Amendment, 65; Thirteenth Amendment, 222, 246, 250; Treaty Clause, 394; Twelfth Amendment, 103
U.S. Defense Department, 367, 370
U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs, 59-60, 68
U.S. Department of Treasury, 59-60, 68, 129, 164, 276
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U.S. Department of War, 59-60, 68
U.S. Department of the West, 215
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 365
U.S. House of Representatives. See U.S. Congress U.S. Justice Department, xi, 71, 371-372, 380
U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 284, 366-367, 375
U.S. Office of Strategic Services, 322
U.S. Post Office, 68
USS Chesapeake, 115, 122-124, 131
USS Greer, 307-308
U.S. Senate. See U.S. Congress
USS Kearny, 308
U.S.S.R. See Soviet Union
USS Reuben James, 308
U.S. State Department, 82, 367
U.S. Supreme Court, xvii, xviii, 1, 35, 44-45, 50, 61, 65, 94, 104, 109, 148, 155-157, 162, 166, 189, 204, 212, 221, 233-235, 259, 258-288, 340-342, 368-369, 376-377, 379, 383-396, 403, 414, 418, 426. See also specific cases
Utah, 196
V
Vallandigham, Clement, 230
Van Buren, Martin, ix, 153, 157, 159-160, 165, 172, 191
Van Devanter, Willis, 266, 272-273
Vermont, 271
Vice President, 29
Vietnam War, xiii, 330, 334, 349-353, 362-363, 390, 399, 405, 430
Virginia, 12, 33-34, 39, 41, 49, 57, 61, 100, 102
Virginia Plan, 20-21, 24
Virginia Resolution, 106
Voting Rights Act, 368, 388
W
Wade, Benjamin, 241
Wade-Davis bill, 240-241, 243
Wall Street Journal, xv
War of 1812, 73, 141-142, 145, 147-149, 163, 184, 229, 350, 361, 414, 435, 437
War by Other Means (Yoo, John), viii
Warren, Earl, 389-393
War Powers Resolution (WPR), 352-353, 356, 373, 376, 409, 417, 420
Warsaw Pact, 354, 360
war on terrorism, x
Washington, D.C., vii, 64, 142
Washington, George, viii, ix, xii, xvi, 11, 32, 34, 42, 44, 47, 53-97, 99, 111-112, 122-123, 129, 134, 161-162, 167, 172, 174, 176, 185, 189, 199, 201, 207, 257, 278, 402, 409, 417, 419, 423, 430
Watergate scandal, xi, xx, 94, 330-331, 345, 352-353, 370-374, 381, 383-385, 397-398, 405, 409, 423, 438
Wayne, "Mad Anthony," 79
Webster, Daniel, 58, 147, 168-171, 175, 177, 214
Weinberger, Caspar, 358
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, 272-274
Western Union Telegraph Company, 323
West Indies, 84, 86, 92, 132
Whigs, 149, 173-174, 177-178, 191, 192-195, 197-198
Whiskey Rebellion, 71-72, 129, 134, 207
White, Leonard, 55, 168
Whitewater scandal, 372, 380
Wilkinson, James, 109-110, 123
Willkie, Wendell, 301-302
Wills, Gary, 138
Wilson, James, 19, 21-22, 24-25, 29, 33, 41, 46
Wilson, Woodrow, ix, xiii, 127, 294, 308, 360, 421, 438 "Women's Order," 238
Wood, Gordon, 3, 11-12, 16-17, 39
Worcester, Samuel, 155
Worcester v. Georgia, 155-157