Presidents Above Party
Subtitle: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: March 1, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780807841792
Subjects: Central government; Presidents; U.S. President; Politics / Current Events; History: American; USA; Government - U.S. Government; History; Executive power; Political science; United States
First sentence: American thinking and feeling about executive power was bound, by the fateful beheading of Charles I in 1649, to the conviction that rulers must abide by a higher law.