Political thought and the origins of the American presidency / edited by Ben Lowe ; foreword by David Armitage.
Material type: TextSeries: Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidencyPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 325 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 0813057752
- 9780813057750
- Presidents -- United States -- History
- Executive power -- United States -- History
- Electoral college -- United States -- History
- Constitutional history -- United States
- Political science -- United States
- United States -- Politics and government
- Présidents -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Pouvoir exécutif -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Collège électoral -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Histoire constitutionnelle -- États-Unis
- États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement
- HISTORY / United States / General
- Constitutional history
- Electoral college
- Executive power
- Political science
- Politics and government
- Presidents
- United States
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- KF4910 .P65 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Political Thought and the Intellectual Origins of the American Presidency: Royalism, Executive Power, and the History of Ideas / Ben Lowe -- Part I. The European Origins of the American Presidency -- Checks and Balances: The Cromwellian Origins of the Presidency / Blair Worden -- Party and Faction in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought from Montesquieu to Madison / Max Skj"nsberg -- Does the United States Need a Bill of Rights? Monarchs, Presidents, and the Persistence of a Political Genre in the Age of the American Revolution / Eric Slauter -- Enlightened Despotism and the American Revolution: The Political Thought of Frederick the Great of Prussia / Caroline Winterer -- Part II. The Politics of Constitution Making: The Executive and the Federal Union -- National Power and the Presidency: Rival Forms of Federalist Constitutionalism at the Founding / Jonathan Gienapp -- Defending an Energetic Executive: Theory and Practice in The Federalist / Claire Rydell Arcenas -- Is the Electoral College the Fundamental Problem? New State Admissions and the U.S. Constitution / François Furstenberg -- Part III. Implementing an Ideal: Political Theory and Practice among the Early Presidents -- The Political Practices of the First Presidents: The Cabinet and the Executive Branch / Lindsay M. Chervinsky -- Mirror for Presidents: George Washington and the Law of Nations / Daniel J. Hulsebosch -- Liberty and Power: The Classical Republicanism of George Washington and Mercy Otis Warren / Rosemarie Zagarri
"This volume examines the political ideas behind the construction of the presidency in the U.S. Constitution, as well as how these ideas were implemented by the nation's early presidents"-- Provided by publisher.
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