"The Relational Conceptions of War Powers"  Author(s): Mariah
Zeisberg  Editor(s): Stephen Macedo, Jeffrey Tulis  The Limits
of Constitutional Democracy   Constitutional democracy is at
once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise--and an
enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for
this ambivalence, this book looks at the difficulties of
constitutional democracy, and reexamines fundamental questions:
What is constitutional democracy? When does it succeed or fail?
Can constitutional democracies conduct war? Can they preserve
their values and institutions while addressing new forms of
global interdependence? The authors gathered here interrogate
constitutional democracy's meaning in order to illuminate its
future.  The book examines key themes--the issues of
constitutional failure; the problem of emergency power and
whether constitutions should be suspended when emergencies
arise; the dilemmas faced when constitutions provide and
restrict executive power during wartime; and wheth