Take Up Your Pen : Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics /

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Graham G. Dodds explores the constitutional and historical development of unilateral presidential directives, the ability of presidents to bypass the legislative process and set public policy via their own executive orders, and how such a practice fits Americans' conception of democracy.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dodds, Graham G.
Collectivité auteur: Project Muse
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
Collection:UPCC book collections on Project Muse.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
United States. > Executive Office of the President.
Proclamations > United States.
Executive power > United States.
Executive orders > United States.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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. Unilaterial Presidential directives from postwar era to the present day
  • Chapter 8. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgement..

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