National Security and Congressional Powers

Harvard HLS

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The last few decades have seen tremendous growth in the executive branch’s assertions of power over national security, but Congress also plays an important role in national security law and policymaking. Congress has enabled executive power through broad delegations and continued funding for national security priorities, but faces legal, structural, and political hurdles to meaningfully constraining and shaping the Executive’s expansive use of such…