With the Stroke of a Pen : : Executive Orders and Presidential Power / / Kenneth Mayer.
The conventional wisdom holds that the president of the United States is weak, hobbled by the separation of powers and the short reach of his formal legal authority. In this first-ever in-depth study of executive orders, Kenneth Mayer deals a strong blow to this view. Taking civil rights and foreign...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 3 line illus., 6 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Acknowledgments
- One. Why Are Executive Orders Important?
- Two. Executive Orders and the Law
- Three. Patterns of Use
- Four. Executive Orders and the Institutional Presidency
- Five. Executive Orders and Foreign Affairs
- Six. Executive Orders and Civil Rights
- Seven. Conclusion
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index