The President Who Would Not Be King : : Executive Power under the Constitution / / Michael W. McConnell.
Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent—and limits—of presidential powerOne of the most vexing questions for the framers of the Constitution was how to create a vigorous and independent executive without making him ki...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The University Center for Human Values Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (440 p.) :; 3 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Purpose, Scope, Method
- Part I. The work of the convention
- 1 Creating a Republican Executive
- 2 Debate Begins on the Presidency
- 3 Election and Removal
- 4 The Audacious Innovations of the Committee of Detail
- 5 Completing the Executive
- 6 Ratification Debates
- Part II. Allocating royal powers
- 7 The Framers’ General Theory of Allocating Powers
- 8 The Core Legislative Powers of Taxing and Lawmaking
- 9 The President’s Legislative Powers
- 10 The Power to Control Law Execution
- 11 Foreign Affairs and War
- 12 Other Prerogative Powers
- Part III. the logical structure of article II
- 13 The Executive Power Vesting Clause
- 14 The Logic of the Organization of Article II
- 15 The Three Varieties of Presidential Power
- Part IV. illustrative examples
- 16 Two Classic Cases
- 17 Three Presidents, Three Conflicts
- 18 The Administrative State
- Conclusion
- Short-Form Citations
- Notes
- Index