President, The Congress, and the Constitution
Subtitle: Power and Legitamcy in American Politics
Publisher: Free Press
Published: April 1, 1984
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780029253809
Subjects: Central government; Constitutional & administrative law; U.S. Federal Government; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Constitutional; Government - National; History & Theory - General; History / General; Law-Constitutional; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science-Government - National; Constitutional Law; Executive power; Legislative power; Separation of powers; United States
First sentence: When the text of the Constitution is ambiguous, recourse must be had to the ideas underlying the text: ideas inferrable from the document as a whole, from the intent of the framers, and from the political thought imputable to the framers or to their document.