Presidential Power: Documents Decoded - Hardcover

Brian M. Harward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1610698290 ISBN 13: 9781610698290

Publisher: ABC-CLIO (UK), 2016

Synopsis

This volume uses essential and illuminating primary documents as a portal for understanding the evolution and present parameters of presidential power, the relationship between America's three branches of government, and why wartime often leads presidents to claim expansive powers and authority.

Presidential Power: Documents Decoded provides a thorough examination of the historical and political context of key, critical moments in constitutional history and presidential power that makes possible opportunities for students to explore American politics in an interesting, memorable, and dynamic way. Each of the case studies reveals important dimensions of the constitutional order in the United States—and enables readers to better grasp how executive power has shifted and expanded.

The book takes specific events, people, institutions, or ideas and places them in a broader context so that readers can observe patterns and make connections among seemingly disparate happenings and concepts relating to executive power. Accompanied by explanatory sidebars, the included primary sources let students examine actual documentary evidence of key elements of executive power—for example, the presidential memorandum, the National Security cable, and the prisoner's petition—and reach their own judgment of the implications of that document for the American political system.

About this title

About the Author

Brian M. Harward, PhD, is associate professor of political science and director of the Center for Political Participation at Allegheny College.

Edition details

• Publisher: ABC-CLIO (UK)
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610698290
• ISBN 13: 9781610698290
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368