LEADER 04648nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910788305703321 005 20211008222920.0 010 $a0-8122-0815-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208153 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060357 035 $a(OCoLC)859162261 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748334 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000967792 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11614511 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000967792 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10977381 035 $a(PQKB)10950172 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24644 035 $a(DE-B1597)449677 035 $a(OCoLC)979904913 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208153 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442024 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748334 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682418 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442024 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060357 100 $a20121213d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTake up your pen$b[electronic resource] $eunilateral presidential directives in American politics /$fGraham G. Dodds 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 225 0 $aDemocracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51136-5 311 0 $a0-8122-4511-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 285-301) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tChapter 1. Unilateral Directives and the Presidency --$tChapter 2. The Constitutional Executive --$tChapter 3. Judicial Sanction --$tChapter 4. Early Unilateral Presidential Directives --$tChapter 5. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Unilateral Presidential Directives --$tChapter 6. Unilateral Presidential Directives from Roosevelt to Roosevelt: Taft through FDR --$tChapter 7. Unilateral Presidential Directives from the Postwar Era to the Present Day --$tChapter 8. Conclusions --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aExecutive orders and proclamations afford presidents an independent means of controlling a wide range of activities in the federal government-yet they are not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. In fact, the controversial edicts known as universal presidential directives seem to violate the separation of powers by enabling the commander-in-chief to bypass Congress and enact his own policy preferences. As Clinton White House counsel Paul Begala remarked on the numerous executive orders signed by the president during his second term: "Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool."Although public awareness of unilateral presidential directives has been growing over the last decade-sparked in part by Barack Obama's use of executive orders and presidential memoranda to reverse many of his predecessor's policies as well as by the number of unilateral directives George W. Bush promulgated for the "War on Terror"-Graham G. Dodds reminds us that not only has every single president issued executive orders, such orders have figured in many of the most significant episodes in American political history. In Take Up Your Pen, Dodds offers one of the first historical treatments of this executive prerogative and explores the source of this authority; how executive orders were legitimized, accepted, and routinized; and what impact presidential directives have had on our understanding of the presidency, American politics, and political development. By tracing the rise of a more activist central government-first advanced in the Progressive Era by Theodore Roosevelt-Dodds illustrates the growing use of these directives throughout a succession of presidencies. More important, Take Up Your Pen questions how unilateral presidential directives fit the conception of democracy and the needs of American citizens. 410 0$aUPCC book collections on Project Muse. 606 $aExecutive orders$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aExecutive power$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSeparation of powers$zUnited States$xHistory 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 615 0$aExecutive orders$xHistory. 615 0$aExecutive power$xHistory. 615 0$aPresidents$xHistory. 615 0$aSeparation of powers$xHistory. 676 $a352.2350973 700 $aDodds$b Graham G$01205225 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788305703321 996 $aTake up your pen$93690344 997 $aUNINA