Untrodden ground
Subtitle: how Presidents interpret the Constitution
By: Harold H. Bruff
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 557
ISBN-13: 9780226211107
Subjects: Presidents; Implied powers (Constitutional law); Executive power; History
Description: Examines constitutional innovations related to executive power made by each of the nation's forty-four presidents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Responsibility : the Constitution; title: Summoned by my country : Washington and Adams; title: The fugitive occurrence : Jefferson and Madison; title: Independent of both : Jackson, Tyler, and Polk; title: A rough time of it : Lincoln; title: Unmindful of the high duties : Andrew Johnson; title: Facing the lions : McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Wilson; title: What must be done : Franklin Roosevelt; title: Going to hell : Truman and Eisenhower; title: Bear any burden : Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; title: Not illegal : Nixon, Ford, and Carter; title: First a dream : Reagan; title: The vision thing : George H.W. Bush and Clinton; title: No equivocation : George W. Bush; title: The last mile : Obama.