The Presidents and the Constitution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Presidents and the Constitution write by Ken Gormley. This book was released on 2016-05-10. The Presidents and the Constitution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shines new light on America's brilliant constitutional and presidential history, from George Washington to Barack Obama. In this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation’s foremost experts on the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how each American president has confronted and shaped the Constitution. Each occupant of the office—the first president to the forty-fourth—has contributed to the story of the Constitution through the decisions he made and the actions he took as the nation’s chief executive. By examining presidential history through the lens of constitutional conflicts and challenges, The Presidents and the Constitution offers a fresh perspective on how the Constitution has evolved in the hands of individual presidents. It delves into key moments in American history, from Washington’s early battles with Congress to the advent of the national security presidency under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, to reveal the dramatic historical forces that drove these presidents to action. Historians and legal experts, including Richard Ellis, Gary Hart, Stanley Kutler and Kenneth Starr, bring the Constitution to life, and show how the awesome powers of the American presidency have been shapes by the men who were granted them. The book brings to the fore the overarching constitutional themes that span this country’s history and ties together presidencies in a way never before accomplished.
Constitutional Cliffhangers
Constitutional Cliffhangers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constitutional Cliffhangers write by Brian C. Kalt. This book was released on 2012-01-24. Constitutional Cliffhangers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United States Constitution's provisions for selecting, replacing, and punishing presidents contain serious weaknesses that could lead to constitutional controversies. In this compelling and fascinating book, Brian Kalt envisions six such controversies, such as the criminal prosecution of a sitting president, a two-term president's attempt to stay in power, the ousting of an allegedly disabled president, and more. None of these things has ever occurred, but in recent years many of them almost have. Besides being individually dramatic, these controversies provide an opportunity to think about how constitutional procedures can best be designed, interpreted, and repaired. Also, because the events Kalt describes would all carry enormous political consequences, they shed light on the delicate and complicated balance between law and politics in American government.
Untrodden Ground
Untrodden Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Untrodden Ground write by Harold H. Bruff. This book was released on 2016-11-23. Untrodden Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines constitutional innovations related to executive power made by each of the nation's forty-four presidents.
The Presidency in the Constitutional Order
The Presidency in the Constitutional Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Presidency in the Constitutional Order write by Joseph M. Bessette. This book was released on 2017-07-12. The Presidency in the Constitutional Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This classic collection of studies, first published in 1980, contributes to the revival of interest in the powers and duties of the American presidency. Unlike many previous books on the constitution and the president, the contributors to this volume are political scientists, not law professors. Accordingly, they display political scientists' concern with structures as well as power, with conflict between the branches of government as well as their functional separation, and with political prescription as well as legal analysis. Underlying the entire volume is a persistent attention to the nature of executive power and its particular manifestation in the American system. Part One introduces the foundations that underlie contemporary issues, including the famous James Madison-Alexander Hamilton debate over the powers of the presidency. Contemporary political and scholarly controversies, which are the subjects of Part Two, include the constitutionality of the War Powers Resolution of 1973, the legislative veto, executive privilege and secrecy, the character of the presidency, presidential selection, and the nature of executive power. The essays in The Presidency in the Constitutional Order represent some of the most cogent thought available about the highest elected office in America, and the themes of the volume continue to be timely and provocative.
The Forgotten Presidents
The Forgotten Presidents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forgotten Presidents write by Michael J. Gerhardt. This book was released on 2013-04-11. The Forgotten Presidents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Constitutional Legacy of Forgotten Presidents, eminent constitutional scholar Michael Gerhardt tells the stories of thirteen presidents whom most Americans do not remember and scholars think had no constitutional impact, among them Chester Arthur, Martin Van Buren, and William Howard Taft. As Gerhardt shows, our forgotten presidents played crucial roles in laying some of the groundwork followed by Lincoln and other modern presidents, as well as providing examples for future lawmakers of constitutional choices to avoid.
