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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820934203321

Autore

Calabresi Steven G

Titolo

The unitary executive : presidential power from Washington to Bush / / Steven G. Calabresi and Christopher S. Yoo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT, : Yale University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-35342-X

9786612353420

0-300-14538-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 544 p.))

Altri autori (Persone)

YooChristopher S

Disciplina

973.09/9

Soggetti

Executive power - United States - History

Presidents - United States - History

United States Politics and government

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. 511-515) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. An Introduction to the Debate over the Unitary Executive -- Part II. The Unitary Executive During the Early Years of the Republic, 1787-1837 -- Part III. The Unitary Executive During the Jacksonian Period, 1837-1861 -- Part IV. The Unitary Executive During the Civil War, 1861-1869 -- Part V. The Unitary Executive During the Gilded Age, 1869-1889 -- Part VI. The Unitary Executive During the Rise of the Administrative State, 1889-1945 -- Part VII. The Unitary Executive During the Modern Era, 1945-2007 -- Part VIII. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliographic Note -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first to undertake a detailed historical and legal examination of presidential power and the theory of the unitary executive. This theory-that the Constitution gives the president the power to remove and control all policy-making subordinates in the executive branch-has been the subject of heated debate since the Reagan years. To determine whether the Constitution creates a strongly unitary executive, Steven G. Calabresi and Christopher S. Yoo look at the actual practice of all forty-three presidential administrations, from George Washington to George W. Bush. They argue that all presidents



have been committed proponents of the theory of the unitary executive, and they explore the meaning and implications of this finding.