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American Presidency

Origins and Development, 1776-2014

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Origins and Development, 1776-2014

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Constitutional history, Presidents, Politics and government, Executive power, History, Präsidiales Regierungssystem, USA, Vollziehende Gewalt, USA. President, Geschichte, USA. Regierung, Politik, Präsident, Political science, united states, United states, politics and government, Presidents, united states
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American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2014
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The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-1998
December 1998, Congressional Quarterly Books
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Table of Contents

Preface
Page ix
Chapter 1. The Constitutional Convention
Page 1
Antecedents
Page 2
The Constitutional Convention
Page 8
Chapter 2. Creating the Presidency
Page 28
The Making of the Presidency: An Overview
Page 28
Number of the Executive
Page 31
Selection and Succession
Page 33
Term of Office
Page 36
Removal
Page 38
Institutional Separation from Congress
Page 40
Enumerated Powers
Page 42
The Vice Presidency
Page 57
Ratifying the Constitution
Page 60
Chapter 3. Bringing the Constitutional Presidency to Life: George Washington and John Adams
Page 72
The Election of George Washington
Page 73
Making the Presidency Safe for Democracy
Page 75
Forming the Executive and Judicial Branches
Page 77
Presidential 'Supremacy' and the Conduct of the Executive Branch
Page 80
Presidential Nonpartisanship and the Beginning of Party Conflict
Page 83
Washington's Retirement and the Jay Treaty: The Constitutional Crisis of 1796
Page 90
The 1796 Election
Page 94
The Embattled Presidency of John Adams
Page 95
The Alien and Sedition Acts
Page 98
Chapter 4. The Triumph of Jeffersonianism
Page 104
The 'Revolution' of 1800
Page 105
Jefferson's War with the Judiciary
Page 108
The Democratic-Republican Program and the Adjustment to Power
Page 110
The Limits of 'Popular' Leadership
Page 114
The Twelfth Amendment
Page 115
Jefferson's Mixed Legacy
Page 117
The Presidency of James Madison and the Rise of the House of Representatives
Page 118
The Presidencies of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams
Page 122
Chapter 5. The Age of Jackson
Page 131
Jacksonian Democracy
Page 132
The Rise of the Party Convention
Page 136
Jackson's Struggle with Congress
Page 136
The Aftermath of the Bank Veto
Page 139
The Decline of the Cabinet
Page 140
The Limits of the Jacksonian Presidency
Page 142
Martin Van Buren and the Panic of 1837
Page 146
The Jacksonian Presidency Sustained
Page 147
John Tyler and the Problem of Presidential Succession
Page 149
The Presidency of James K. Polk
Page 152
The Slavery Controversy and the Twilight of the Jacksonian Presidency
Page 157
Chapter 6. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
Page 165
Lincoln and the Slavery Controversy
Page 167
The Election of 1860
Page 169
Lincoln and Secession
Page 171
Lincoln's Wartime Measures
Page 173
The Emancipation Proclamation
Page 177
The Election of 1864
Page 180
Lincoln's Legacy
Page 183
Chapter 7. The Reaction Against Presidential Power: Andrew Johnson to William McKinley
Page 188
Reconstruction and the Assault on Executive Authority
Page 190
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Page 195
Ulysses S. Grant and the Abdication of Executive Power
Page 197
The Fight to Restore Presidential Power
Page 202
Congressional Government and the Prelude to a More Active Presidency
Page 213
Chapter 8. Progressive Politics and Executive Power: The Presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson
Page 227
Theodore Roosevelt and the Expansion of Executive Power
Page 229
The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft
Page 244
Progressive Politics and the Elections of 1912
Page 250
Woodrow Wilson's Theory of Executive Leadership
Page 253
Wilson and Party Reform
Page 255
The Art of Popular Leadership
Page 256
Wilson's Relations with Congress
Page 258
Wilson as World Leader
Page 261
Chapter 9. The Triumph of Conservative Republicanism
Page 277
The Harding Era
Page 279
The 'Silent' Politics of Calvin Coolidge
Page 287
Herbert C. Hoover and the Great Depression
Page 290
The Twentieth Amendment
Page 296
Chapter 10. The Consolidation of the Modern Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower
Page 301
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency
Page 302
The Modern Presidency Sustained: Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower
Page 322
Chapter 11. Personalizing the Presidency: John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter
Page 350
John F. Kennedy and the Rise of the 'Personal Presidency'
Page 351
Lyndon B. Johnson and Presidential Government
Page 359
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment
Page 366
The Presidency of Richard Nixon
Page 369
Gerald R. Ford and the Post-Watergate Era
Page 381
A President Named Jimmy
Page 385
Chapter 12. A Restoration of Presidential Power?
Page 396
Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush
Page 396
The Reagan Revolution
Page 396
A Reagan Court?
Page 410
The Bush Presidency
Page 417
Chapter 13. Bill Clinton and the Modern Presidency
Page 430
The Election of 1992
Page 431
The First Year of the Clinton Presidency
Page 434
The 1994 Elections and the Restoration of Divided Government
Page 438
The Comeback President
Page 440
Balanced Budgets, Impeachment Politics, and the Limits of the Third Way
Page 445
Chapter 14. George W. Bush and Unilateral Presidential Power
Page 456
The 2000 Election
Page 457
Bush v. Gore
Page 459
The Early Months of the Bush Presidency
Page 461
September 11 and the War on Terrorism
Page 463
An Expanded Presidency
Page 465
Bush and the Republican Party
Page 469
Courts and Parties
Page 474
Partnership and Unilateralism at the Twilight of the Bush Presidency
Page 477
Chapter 15. Managing Alone: Barack Obama and the Dilemma of Modern Presidential Leadership
Page 481
The 2008 Elections
Page 483
The New Foundation and Partisan Rancor
Page 484
We Can't Wait: Obama and the Administrative Presidency
Page 490
Obama's Reelection and the Perils of Managing Alone
Page 492
Obama, Partisanship, and the War on Terrorism
Page 495
Barack Obama, the Modern Presidency, and American Democracy
Page 499
Chapter 16. The Vice Presidency
Page 507
The Founding Period
Page 508
The Vice Presidency in the Nineteenth Century
Page 511
Theodore Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman
Page 514
The Modern Vice Presidency
Page 518
Conclusion
Page 532
Appendix
Page 539
Constitution of the United States
Page 541
U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents
Page 560
Summary of Presidential Elections, 1789-2012
Page 563
Index
Page 573

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