| Judging Executive Power: Sixteen Supreme Court Cases that Have Shaped the American Presidency Contributor(s): Ellis, Richard J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742565130 ISBN-13: 9780742565135 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $51.48 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: Judging Executive Power introduces students to sixteen important Supreme Court cases that have shaped the power of the American presidency. The cases selected include the removal power, executive privilege, executive immunity, the line-item veto, as well as a president's wartime powers from the Civil War to the War on Terror. The book both brings the courts back into the teaching of the American presidency and securely fixes landmark judicial opinions within their political and historical context. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Constitutional - Political Science | American Government - Judicial Branch |
| Dewey: 342.730 |
| LCCN: 2008043438 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 244 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: George W. Bush's presidency has helped accelerate a renewed interest in the legal or formal bases of presidential power. It is now abundantly clear that presidential power is more than the sum of bargaining, character, and rhetoric. Presidential power also inheres in the Constitution or at least assertions of constitutional powers. Judging Executive Power helps to bring the Constitution and the courts back into the study of the American presidency by introducing students to sixteen important Supreme Court cases that have shaped the power of the American presidency. The cases selected include the removal power, executive privilege, executive immunity, and the line-item veto, with particularly emphasis on a president's wartime powers from the Civil War to the War on Terror. Through introductions and postscripts that accompany each case, landmark judicial opinions are placed in their political and historical contexts, enabling students to understand the political forces that frame and the political consequences that follow from legal arguments and judgments. |