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



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Autore: Dodds Graham G Visualizza persona
Titolo: Take up your pen [[electronic resource] ] : unilateral presidential directives in American politics / / Graham G. Dodds Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
Disciplina: 352.2350973
Soggetto topico: Executive orders - United States - History
Executive power - United States - History
Presidents - United States - History
Separation of powers - United States - History
Soggetto non controllato: Political Science
Public Policy
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Take up your pen  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8122-0815-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788305703321
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