The Power of the Pressidency: Concepts and ControversyRobert S. Hirschfield The American presidency is the most powerful political office in the world. But this impressive statement serves only to raise a whole series of fundamental questions: What is the scope of presidential powers and what are its limits? Can the president use all the authority of his office or is that authority more formal than effective? Does the presidency have sufficient power to meet today's needs or do the problems of the modern age demand a more powerful executive? Is there a danger of dictatorship in the growth of political authority or will the presidency remain an office of constitutional democratic leadership? This book explores such questions by presenting a wide range of views on presidential power from a variety of sources: original supporters and opponents of the office; presidents themselves; Supreme Court decisions; and professional students of the presidency. |
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... democracy and security, constitutionality and necessity, it is a problem with which Americans will have to deal recurrently so long as our political system endures. In revising the book I have reviewed all of the readings and tried to ...
... democratic leadership? This book explores such questions by presenting a wide range of views on presidential power from a variety of sources: original supporters and opponents of the office, Presidents themselves, Supreme Court ...
... democracy may turn out to be democracy's undoing. CLINTON ROSSITER: The Presidency as the Focus of Leadership 296 . . . the strength of the Presidency is a measure of the strength of the America in which we now live. . . . “Leave Your ...
... democracy. Depending on the historial period or the political orientation from which the office is viewed, each of these seemingly contradictory assessments may be valid. But taken together they reflect two essential facts about ...
... democracy has made the Presidency a tribunate office, so that today the President is politically as well as constitutionally, actually as well as symbolically, “the sole representative of all the people.” This development, which had its ...
Contents
in the event that the Congress should fail to act and | 112 |
Some Thoughts on the Presidency | 120 |
From The Ordeal of Power | 127 |
MidTerm Television Conversation | 136 |
Comments on the Presidency | 149 |
The Presidential Character | 367 |
The Limits of Presidential Power | 387 |
The Presidency and Its Paradoxes | 416 |
The Presidency in the 1980s | 433 |
Change and Continuity | 451 |
Presidents of the United States | 482 |
Index | 496 |
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