The President Who Would Not Be King Executive Power under the Constitution
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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Princeton, New Jersey, Baltimore, Md.
Princeton University Press, Project MUSE
2020, [2020]0000
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| Series: | University Center for Human Values series
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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