President - Office and Powers 1787-1957 : History and Analysis of Practice and Opinion / Edward S. Corwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corwin, Edward S., 1878-1963, author.

Series:

James Stokes lectureship on politics.

James Stokes lectureship on politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executive power--United States.

Executive power.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 519 pages).

Edition:

Fourth revised edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 1957.

Summary:

Primarily a study in American public law with an approach partly historicial, partly analytical, and critical. The central theme is the development and contemporary status of presidential power, and of the presidential office under the Constitution.

Contents:

I. Conceptions of the office. "Executive power": a term of uncertain content

Sources of the framers' ideas of executive power

The Philadelphia Convention and "The Federalist

The presidency from Washington to J.Q. Adams

From Jackson's revolution to Lincoln's "dictatorship"

The presidency occulted, Congress dominant

II. The apparatus of the presidency. Who may be president, the ban on third terms

The electoral college, dangerous breakdowns

Another danger spot, presidential disability

Oath of office, compensation, the vice-president

The oath again, Johnson's impeachment

III. Administrative chief. "Office" and appointment thereto

The president as supervisor of law enforcement, the cabinet

The removal power: the Myers and Humphrey cases

The administrative setup and the problem of reorganization

A new problem in American government: disloyalty in the bureaus

Executive immunity versus legislative prerogative

IV. Chief executive. The president as law interpreter, delegated legislative power, appropriation acts, concurrent resolutions

Military power in law enforcement: president versus Congress

Martial law under the Constitution, habeas corpus

Emergency powers of the president: the "stewardship theory"

Pardons, amnesties, reprieves

V. Organ of foreign relations. National sovereignty in the foreign field, Congressional independence and judicial abstention

"Sole organ of external relations": Hamilton versus Madison

Congressional collaboration and control: recognition

Executive of the law of nations: presidential warmaking

President versus Senate, "Personal agents," "Executive agreements"

American participation in the United Nations

VI. Commander-in-chief in wartime. Lincoln and the "commander-in-chief" clause

Delegated war power: the two World Wars

Presidential lawmaking, the war agencies, labor, "indirect sanctions"

The "stewardship theory" in total war

Martial law, military government, laws of war

The president as supreme commander of the forces

VII. Legislative leader and "institution." The Constitutional basis and "modus operandi" of presidential leadership, from Roosevelt I to Roosevelt II

Roosevelt II and Congress, the law of ebb and flow

Ancillary weapons of presidential leadership, the veto power

Collateral factors of presidential leadership, patronage, filibusters, judicial review

The president as "dictator" versus the president as leader: a new type of cabinet

"The institutionalized presidency.".

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