Congressional Studies

Based on an original, comprehensive dataset of every congressional reference to the commander-in-chief clause from the Founding through 1917, Casey Dominguez's Commander in Chief systematically analyzes the authority that members of Congress ascribe to the president as commander in chief and the boundaries they put around that authority.

A compelling challenge to the conventional wisdom that a shared devotion to the Constitution is the essence of what it means to be American; this book shows the language of constitutional devotion has long served to justify hatred, violence, and exclusion.