The President Who Would Not Be King : Executive Power under the Constitution /

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Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent--and limits--of presidential power. One of the most vexing questions for the framers of the Constitution was how to create a vigorous and independent executive without making hi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McConnell, Michael W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Series:University Center for Human Values series.
Subjects:
Constitutional history > United States.
Presidents > United States > History.
Executive power > United States > History.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
Présidents > États-Unis > Histoire.
Pouvoir exécutif > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > Executive Branch.
Constitutional history
Executive power
Presidents
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Stephen Macedo
  • Introduction : purpose, scope, method
  • Creating a republican executive
  • Debate begins on the presidency
  • Election and removal
  • The audacious innovations of the Committee of Detail
  • Completing the executive
  • Ratification debates
  • The framers' general theory of allocating powers
  • The core legislative powers of taxing and lawmaking
  • The president's legislative powers
  • The power to control law execution
  • Foreign affairs and war
  • Other prerogative powers
  • The executive power vesting clause
  • The logic of the organization of Article II
  • The three varieties of presidential power
  • Two classic cases
  • Three presidents, three conflicts
  • The administrative state.

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