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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... appointment and veto power, or the wisdom of linking the president to the Senate in the foreign relations field. Proponents of the new Constitution across the country took up the challenge, defending the office of the presidency as a ...
... appoint all principal officers of the United States.17 The text suggests that the president must exercise at least some hierarchical control: how else can he “take care that of unitary executive by vesting “the executive Power”15 the ...
... appoint and remove executive officials. The appointment power is rooted in Article II, and the structure of Article II permits the president to appoint, with some restrictions, all principal officers of the United States, whether ...
... Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law.”29 The Framers plainly rejected the option of legislative appointment, as had been practiced in some colonies,30 and proposed (to some extent) in ...
... appointment process does not guarantee that the president will always agree with the appointee's decisions. Presidential appointment of Supreme Court justices in particular demonstrates that predicting the course of an individual's ...
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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 |