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The president who would not be king : executive power under the constitution / Michael W. McConnell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McConnell, Michael W., author.
- Series:
- University Center for Human Values series.
- Princeton scholarship online.
- The University Center for Human Values series
- Princeton scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Executive power--United States.
- Executive power.
- Presidents--United States.
- Presidents.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 421 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- One of the most vexing questions for the framers of the Constitution was how to create a vigorous and independent executive without making him king. In today's divided public square, presidential power has never been more contested. This book cuts through the partisan rancor to reveal what the Constitution really tells us about the powers of the president. The book provides a comprehensive account of the drafting of presidential powers. Because the framers met behind closed doors and left no records of their deliberations, close attention must be given to their successive drafts.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 5, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- ISBN:
- 9780691207520
- 0691207526
- OCLC:
- 1192382012
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