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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... issue for the nation because of the war in Vietnam. Within a year that problem had been compounded by the Watergate affair. The matter of defining the scope and limits of presidential power dominates American governmental affairs now as ...
... issue for Americans during the late 1960s primarily because Mr. Iohnson conducted a “presidential war” in Vietnam. And it was not resolved by the election of Mr. Nixon. On the contrary, Nixon's exercise of independent authority in ...
... issue of presidential power-—directly related as it is to the problems of war or peace, annihilation or survival, progress or stagnation—is among the most important political issues of our time. I became interested in the subject of ...
... issues that can help a President govern effectively. In addition, the state and local chieftains who once played a major part in selecting and electing their party's candidate have been largely displaced in the new system and are ...
... issues. Moreover, the legislature's new information-gathering and problem-evaluating apparatus is not comparable to that of the Presidency. Nor is Congress properly equipped to oversee executive operations; on the contrary 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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