Thomas Jefferson and Executive PowerBy 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 would preserve a strict interpretation of the Constitution as well as transform the precedents left by his Federalist predecessors, it provided an alternative to Alexander Hamilton's understanding of executive power. In fact, a more thorough account of Jefferson's political career suggests that Jefferson envisioned an executive that was powerful, or 'energetic', because it would be more explicitly attached to the majority will. Jefferson's Revolution of 1800, often portrayed as a reversal of the strong presidency, was itself premised on energy in the executive and was part of Jefferson's project to enable the Constitution to survive and even flourish in a world governed by necessity. |
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Contents
| 1 | |
| 10 | |
Declarations of Principle | 22 |
The Understanding Developed | 24 |
2 | 28 |
Impressments | 44 |
The 1783 Constitution | 55 |
3 | 65 |
6 | 151 |
7 | 171 |
Louisiana | 172 |
The Diplomatic Mission | 173 |
Power to Incorporate | 187 |
For Appropriation | 188 |
For Incorporation | 189 |
8 | 195 |
Department3 Jack N Rakove is also right to say that | 66 |
Without the president possessing the power of removal the executive | 79 |
was made compatible with and even supportive of executive power | 99 |
4 | 101 |
Throughout his political career Jefferson heard drafted wrote and read | 102 |
Declaring Independence | 105 |
address Taken together a declaration of rights and a limit | 113 |
opened the possibility that majority rule is flawed in that | 130 |
5 | 132 |
Washington and Adams | 136 |
ought to shape its administration31 As he had written to | 143 |
just as Americans in 1776 needed someone to | 149 |
The Aaron Burr Amendment? | 196 |
was a general meeting of the friends of the discriminating | 212 |
9 | 225 |
where equally with the others it acts in the last | 229 |
Proclamations | 230 |
encouraged a certain kind of citizen to act with the | 232 |
Open Letters and Replies to Addresses | 237 |
perhaps to the transcendent objects and national hopes Jefferson | 247 |
10 | 259 |
system he helped create caused him to keep silent what | 260 |
Arousing popular sentiment condenses it and makes it ascertainable which | 262 |
In a strange twist it is possible that Lincoln was | 266 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power |
| Author | Jeremy D. Bailey |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1139466291, 9781139466295 |
| Subjects | › › History / Modern / 20th Century Political Science / American Government / General Political Science / General |
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