Judging Executive Power: Sixteen Supreme Court Cases that Have Shaped the American Presidency

by Richard J. Ellis

Book Overview

George W. Bush's presidency has helped accelerate a renewed interest in the legal or formal bases of presidential power. It is now abundantly clear that presidential power is more than the sum of bargaining, character, and rhetoric. Presidential power also inheres in the Constitution or at least assertions of constitutional powers. Judging Executive Power helps to bring the Constitution and the courts back into the study of the American presidency...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742565130
• ISBN13: 9780742565135
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"