Preface Introduction Christopher S. Kelley 1. Public Law and the "Executive" Constitution Richard M. Pious 2. Venture Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of the Presidency Ryan J. Barilleaux 3. Executive Orders from Nixon to Now Graham G. Dodds 4. The Significance of the Presidential Signing Statement Christopher S. Kelley 5. Executive Privilege in an Era of Polarized Politics Mark J. Rozell 6. "The 'Protective Return' Pocket Veto: Presidential Aggrandizement of Constitutional Power" Robert J. Spitzer 7. Executing the Rhetorical Presidency: William Jefferson Clinton, George W. Bush, and the Contemporary Face of Presidential Power Kevan M. Yenerall 8. Unsettling the New Deal: Reagan's Constitutional Reconstruction and the Rehnquist Court's Federalism George Thomas 9. Democratic Politics and Constitutional Creation: The Paradoxes of Presidential Policy toward the Judiciary Kevin J. McMahon 10. The "Imperial Presidency" Triumphant: War Powers in the Clinton and Bush Administrations Michael Cairo 11. Clinton's Other Infidelity: Signing, Ignoring, and Disobeying Helms-Burton Patrick J. Haney, Maureen P. Haney, and Walt Vanderbush Conclusion Christopher S. Kelley About the Authors Index
Christopher S. Kelley is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Miami University.
"This book hits the nail on the head in insisting that a public law
approach to the study of the presidency is central. It is a fine
book on an important and challenging aspect of the presidency."
"This work makes a needed and valuable contribution to the
scholarship on several important and timely changes occurring in
the presidential relationship to and use of the Constitution. All
presidential scholars will want to add this to their libraries." --
Robert P. Watson, editor of Life in the White House: A Social
History of the First Family and the Pr
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