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Untrodden ground : how Presidents interpret the Constitution / Harold H. Bruff.
Author
Bruff, Harold H., 1944-
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English
Published/Created
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Description
557 pages ; 24 cm
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JK511 .B78 2015
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Executive power
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United States
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History
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Implied powers (Constitutional law)
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United States
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History
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Presidents
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Summary note
Examines constitutional innovations related to executive power made by each of the nation's forty-four presidents.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-549) and index.
Contents
Responsibility : the Constitution
Summoned by my country : Washington and Adams
The fugitive occurrence : Jefferson and Madison
Independent of both : Jackson, Tyler, and Polk
A rough time of it : Lincoln
Unmindful of the high duties : Andrew Johnson
Facing the lions : McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Wilson
What must be done : Franklin Roosevelt
Going to hell : Truman and Eisenhower
Bear any burden : Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
Not illegal : Nixon, Ford, and Carter
First a dream : Reagan
The vision thing : George H.W. Bush and Clinton
No equivocation : George W. Bush
The last mile : Obama.
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ISBN
9780226211107 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
022621110X ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2014025164
OCLC
881875918
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