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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dodds, Graham G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Colección:Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
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  • 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