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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... the Revolutionary War.2 The lack of an executive branch helped precipitate the fall of government under the Articles of Confederation, and some state legislatures had exercised almost unchecked powers in the years leading up to the ...
... The state's Constitution restricted the council to one clerical employee. Executive authority was vested in the legislature alone. As one critic of the legislature lamented, had the supreme power instead “been lodged in the hands of one ...
... the first time, some administration existed outside Congress itself. The drafters placed a premium on executive accountability to congressional policymaking. Yet the government remained hard-pressed to keep the nation solvent, let alone ...
... the Advice and Consent of the Senate to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers ...
... the executive power did not occupy center stage. Rather, most of the debates concerned the allocation of power between the states and Congress and between large and small states. Nonetheless, there were many, like Patrick Henry, who ...
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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 |