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Imperial from the beginning : the constitution of the original executive / Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash.
Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore author.
2015
KF5053 .P725 2015 (Map It)
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Author
Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore author.
Title
Imperial from the beginning : the constitution of the original executive / Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash.
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Call Number
KF5053 .P725 2015
ISBN
9780300194562 (hbk.)
0300194560 (hbk.)
Description
x, 454 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)884962015
Summary
Eminent scholar Saikrishna Prakash offers the first truly comprehensive study of the original American presidency. Drawing from a vast range of sources both well known and obscure, this volume reconstructs the powers and duties of the nation’s chief executive at the Constitution’s founding. Among other subjects, Prakash examines the term and structure of the office of the president, his power as constitutional executor of the law, his foreign policy authority, his role as commander in chief, the president’s authority during emergencies, and his relations with the U.S. Congress, the courts, and the states. This ambitious and even-handed analysis counters numerous misconceptions about the presidency and fairly demonstrates that the office has long been regarded as monarchical. -- Amazon's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-435) and index.
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