Take Up Your Pen : Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics /
Executive orders and proclamations afford presidents an independent means of controlling a wide range of activities in the federal government-yet they are not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. In fact, the controversial edicts known as universal presidential directives seem to violate the separati...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Unilateral Directives and the Presidency
- Chapter 2. The Constitutional Executive
- Chapter 3. Judicial Sanction
- Chapter 4. Early Unilateral Presidential Directives
- Chapter 5. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Unilateral Presidential Directives
- Chapter 6. Unilateral Presidential Directives from Roosevelt to Roosevelt: Taft through FDR
- Chapter 7. Unilateral Presidential Directives from the Postwar Era to the Present Day
- Chapter 8. Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments