Take up Your Pen
Subtitle: Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780812245110
Subjects: Executive power; Presidents, united states
Description: Graham G. Dodds explores the constitutional and historical development of unilateral presidential directives, the ability of presidents to bypass the legislative process and set public policy via their own executive orders, and how such a practice fits Americans' conception of democracy.