Terrorist Surveillance and the Constitution

In light of the recent debate over the President's powers during wartime, the Federalist Society has produced a monograph [136 pp. pdf] on the legal and constitutional issues implicated by NSA's global al Qaeda surveillance program. Although this surveillance program is important in its own right, the ongoing dialogue about its proper legal and policy parameters has become a surrogate for a broader discourse about the constitutional balance among the Executive, Congress, and the Judiciary.