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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788305703321

Autore

Dodds Graham G

Titolo

Take up your pen [[electronic resource] ] : unilateral presidential directives in American politics / / Graham G. Dodds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8122-0815-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism

Disciplina

352.2350973

Soggetti

Executive orders - United States - History

Executive power - United States - History

Presidents - United States - History

Separation of powers - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-301) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Unilateral Directives and the Presidency -- Chapter 2. The Constitutional Executive -- Chapter 3. Judicial Sanction -- Chapter 4. Early Unilateral Presidential Directives -- Chapter 5. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Unilateral Presidential Directives -- Chapter 6. Unilateral Presidential Directives from Roosevelt to Roosevelt: Taft through FDR -- Chapter 7. Unilateral Presidential Directives from the Postwar Era to the Present Day -- Chapter 8. Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Executive orders and proclamations afford presidents an independent means of controlling a wide range of activities in the federal government-yet they are not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. In fact, the controversial edicts known as universal presidential directives seem to violate the separation of powers by enabling the commander-in-chief to bypass Congress and enact his own policy preferences. As Clinton White House counsel Paul Begala remarked on the numerous executive orders signed by the president during his second term: "Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool."Although public awareness of unilateral presidential directives has been growing over the last decade-sparked in part by Barack Obama's use of executive



orders and presidential memoranda to reverse many of his predecessor's policies as well as by the number of unilateral directives George W. Bush promulgated for the "War on Terror"-Graham G. Dodds reminds us that not only has every single president issued executive orders, such orders have figured in many of the most significant episodes in American political history. In Take Up Your Pen, Dodds offers one of the first historical treatments of this executive prerogative and explores the source of this authority; how executive orders were legitimized, accepted, and routinized; and what impact presidential directives have had on our understanding of the presidency, American politics, and political development. By tracing the rise of a more activist central government-first advanced in the Progressive Era by Theodore Roosevelt-Dodds illustrates the growing use of these directives throughout a succession of presidencies. More important, Take Up Your Pen questions how unilateral presidential directives fit the conception of democracy and the needs of American citizens.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910737273003321

Autore

Sansone Livio

Titolo

Field Station Bahia : Brazil in the Work of Lorenzo Dow Turner, E. Franklin Frazier and Frances and Melville Herskovits, 1935-1967

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : BRILL, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

90-04-52716-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 pages)

Collana

Africa Multiple Series ; ; v.1

Disciplina

305.800981/42

Soggetti

Ethnology - Brazil - Bahia (State)

Black people - Brazil - Bahia (State) - Social life and customs

Bahia (Brazil : State) Intellectual life

Bahia (Brazil : State) Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Sommario/riassunto

"This book offers a new perspective on the making of Afro-Brazilian, African-American and African studies through the interrelated trajectory of E. Franklin Frazier, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Frances and Melville Herskovits in Brazil. The book compares the style, network and agenda of these different and yet somehow converging scholars, and relates them to the Brazilian intellectual context, especially Bahia, which showed in those days much less density and organization than the US equivalent. It is therefore a double comparison: between four Americans and between Americans and scholars based in Brazil"--