Contested ground : how to understand the limits of presidential power /
"Presidential power is hotly disputed these days - as it has been many times in recent decades. Yet the same rules must apply to all presidents, those whose abuses of power we fear as well as those whose exercises of power we applaud. This book is about what constitutional law tells us about pr...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Creating the presidency
- Clashing visions of presidential power
- The president and foreign affairs
- Taking the country to war
- The bureaucrat in chief
- The domestic policy Czar
- Presidential power versus individual rights
- The president and the courts
- Congressional checks and balances
- Concluding thoughts.
