Untrodden ground : how Presidents interpret the Constitution / Harold H. Bruff.
2015
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Title
Untrodden ground : how Presidents interpret the Constitution / Harold H. Bruff.
Published
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
JK511 .B78 2015
ISBN
9780226211107 (cloth : alkaline paper)
022621110X (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226211244 (e-book)
022621124X (e-book)
022621110X (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226211244 (e-book)
022621124X (e-book)
Description
557 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)881875918
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Introduction: Only a Necessity
1
pt. I
Durable Consequences
ch. 1
Responsibility: The Constitution
11
ch. 2
Summoned by My Country: Washington and Adams
25
ch. 3
The Fugitive Occurrence: Jefferson and Madison
57
pt. II
A New Nation
ch. 4
Independent of Both: Jackson, Tyler, and Polk
83
ch. 5
A Rough Time of It: Lincoln
120
ch. 6
Unmindful of the High Duties: Andrew Johnson
157
pt. III
Steward of the People
ch. 7
Facing the Lions: McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Wilson
187
ch. 8
What Must Be Done: Franklin Roosevelt
223
pt. IV
One Single Man
ch. 9
Going to Hell: Truman and Eisenhower
261
ch. 10
Bear Any Burden: Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
293
ch. 11
Not Illegal: Nixon, Ford, and Carter
325
pt. V
A New Era
ch. 12
First a Dream: Reagan
359
ch. 13
The Vision Thing: George H. W. Bush and Clinton
376
pt. VI
Deciders
ch. 14
No Equivocation: George W. Bush
401
ch. 15
The Last Mile: Obama
427
Conclusion: The Stream of History
456
Acknowledgments
467
Notes
469
Index
551