Papers from a conference held by the National Defense University.

Introduction / Edmund S. Muskie -- White House decisionmaking / Paul Anderson -- The intellectual legacy of our Constitution / Gregory D. Foster -- Foreign policy and Congressional/Presidential relations / Robert Jervis -- National security : shared and divided powers / Howard E. Shuman -- The power of the purse / Robert F. Turner -- The Constitution, Congressional government, and the imperial republic / Robert S. Wood -- Presidential powers and national security / Larry Berman -- Can the President lead? / George C. Edwards III -- Executive prerogatives, the Constitution, and national security / Joseph E. Goldberg -- Presidential transitions and national security issues / James P. Pfiffner -- Congress, national security, and the rise of the "Presidential branch" / Nelson W. Polsby -- Institutionalization, deinstitutionalization, and leadership / Bert A. Rockman -- The War Powers Resolution / John C. Culver -- The legitimacy of the Congressional national security role / Louis Fisher -- Foreign policy and the economic world order of the 1990s / Gerald Garvey -- Nuclear defense policy : the Constitutional framework / Louis Henkin -- The War Powers Resolution : Congress versus the President / Morris S. Ogul -- National security and the United States judiciary / C. Herman Pritchett -- The Constitutionality of strategic planning / George H. Quester -- Legal lessons in national security / Edwin Timbers.