William Howard Taft's Constitutional Progressivism /

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"Progressive Era scholarship has traditionally insisted that William Howard Taft was opposed to progressive reforms, emphasizing his "judicial temperament" and constitutional conservatism. Scholars have buttressed these theoretical arguments by pointing to Taft's break with Theod...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Burns, Kevin (College teacher) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Taft, William H. > (William Howard), > 1857-1930.
Presidents.
Judges.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Judges > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "Maintenance and enforcement" : regularizing conservation and trust policy
  • Party leadership and legislation : Tariffs and railroad regulations
  • To "perfect the machinery" : modernizing the executive branch
  • Partisanship and the presidency : party and popular leadership
  • The professor on the presidency : our chief magistrate and his powers
  • The Chief Justice on the presidency : Myers v. United States and the removal power
  • Jurisprudence : commerce, regulation, and labor
  • Chief Justice as Chief Executive : judicial reforms on the Taft Court
  • Conclusion.

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