Thomas Jefferson and executive power
By revisiting Thomas Jefferson's understanding of executive power this book offers a new understanding of the origins of presidential power. Before Jefferson was elected president, he arrived at a way to resolve the tension between constitutionalism and executive power. Because his solution wou...
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Cambridge University Press
2007
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Inhaltsangabe:
- The execution of laws is more important than the making of them : reconciling executive energy with democracy
- Executive power and the Virginia executive
- Executive power and the constitution of 1787
- "To place before mankind the common sense of the subject" : declarations of principle
- The real revolution of 1800 : Jefferson's transformation of the inaugural address
- To "produce a union of the powers of the whole" : Jefferson's transformation of the appointment and removal powers
- The Louisiana purchase
- To "complete their entire union of opinion" : the twelfth amendment as amendment to end all amendments
- "To bring their wills to a point of union and effect" : declarations and presidential speech
- Development and difficulties