Presidential PowersNYU Press, 01/02/2005 - 279 páginas Framed in Article II of the Constitution, presidential powers are dictated today by judicial as well as historical precedent. To understand the ways the president wields power as well as how this power is kept in check by other branches of government, Harold J. Krent presents three overlapping determinants of the president's role under the Constitution-the need for presidential initiative in administering the law and providing foreign policy leadership, the importance of maintaining congressional control over policymaking, and the imperative to ensure that the president be accountable to the public. |
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... rule of the British sovereign as well as by colonial governors. Under the British system, the monarch was accountable to the parliament, both the aristocratic House of Lords and the more democratic House of Commons. The king could not ...
... rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”14 The colonists fought the Revolutionary War in part to escape from the despotism of a too powerful monarch. Almost all of the states after the War ...
... rules and regulations as the president shall prescribe.”20 The first Congress evidently found that it could function more effectively through delegation of tasks to the president himself. Subsequent Congresses have delegated an array of ...
... rules acted in a legislative-type capacity, and agencies presiding over adjudications acted in a judicial-type capacity. Given that so many officials engage in either rulemaking or adjudication, the Court's decision curtailed the ...
... rules in particular, he argued that Humphrey's Executor should be revisited, and some lower courts were supportive. He authorized attorneys in the Justice Department to make broader arguments in support of Article II authority in a ...
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2 The Executives Power over Foreign Affairs | 85 |
3 The Protective Power of the President | 133 |
4 Presidential Immunities and Priviledges | 161 |
5 The Pardon Power | 189 |
Conclusion | 215 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 261 |
Index | 269 |