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Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency
2021,2024
Overview
This volume examines the political ideas behind the construction
of the presidency in the U.S. Constitution, as well as how these
ideas were implemented by the nation's early presidents. The
framers of the Constitution disagreed about the scope of the new
executive role they were creating, and this volume reveals the ways
the duties and power of the office developed contrary to many
expectations.
Here, leading scholars of the early republic examine principles
from European thought and culture that were key to establishing the
conceptual language and institutional parameters for the American
executive office. Unpacking the debates at the 1787 Constitutional
Convention, these essays describe how the Constitution left room
for the first presidents to set patterns of behavior and establish
a range of duties to make the office functional within a
governmental system of checks and balances. Contributors explore
how these presidents understood their positions and fleshed out
their full responsibilities according to the everyday operations
required to succeed.
As disputes continue to surround the limits of executive power
today, this volume helps identify and explain the circumstances in
which limits can be imposed on presidents who seem to dangerously
exceed the constitutional parameters of their office. Political
Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency
demonstrates that this distinctive, time-tested role developed from
a fraught, historically contingent, and contested process.
Contributors: Claire Rydell Arcenas | Lindsay
M. Chervinsky | François Furstenberg | Jonathan Gienapp | Daniel J.
Hulsebosch | Ben Lowe | Max Skjönsberg | Eric Slauter | Caroline
Winterer | Blair Worden | Rosemarie Zagarri
A volume in the Alan B. and Charna Larkin Series on the American
Presidency
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Subject
ISBN
0813066816, 9780813066813, 9780813057750, 0813057752
