With the stroke of a pen : executive orders and presidential power /
"Counter The conventional wisdom holds that the president of the United States is weak, hobbled by the separation of powers and the short reach of his formal legal authority. In this first-ever in-depth study of executive orders, Kenneth Mayer deals a strong blow to this view. Taking civil righ...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2001.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- One: Why are executive orders important?
- Two: Executive orders and the law
- Three: Patterns of use
- Four: Executive orders and the institutional Presidency
- Five: Executive orders and foreign affairs
- Six: Executive orders and civil rights
- Seven: Conclusion
- List of abbreviations
- Notes
- Index.