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The presidency and political science : two hundred years of constitutional debate

Surveying the intellectual history of presidential scholarship from the Founding to the late 20th century, this book reviews the work of over 60 major thinkers, from Thomas Jefferson to Theodore Lowi. The authors identify six themes central to theories of presidential power.
Print Book, English, 2003
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2003
History
xiii, 268 p. ; 23 cm.
9780801873218, 9780801873225, 0801873215, 0801873223
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Contents: INTRODUCTION Scope of StudyCHAPTER ONE Constitutional Mythology: The Burns-Kendall DebateCHAPTER TWO Original Intent and the Presidency: Hamilton versus JeffersonCHAPTER THREE Jeffersonianism Sustained: Nineteenth-Century ThinkersCHAPTER FOUR Indictment of Constitutionalism: The Progressive ReconstructionCHATPER FIVE Critics of Progressivism: The Early ConstitutionalistsCHAPTER SIX Sowing the Seeds of Progressivism: Liberalism and the Rise of Heroic PresidencyCHAPTER SEVEN Anti-Aggrandizement Scholars: Attacking Liberal Government and Liberal PresidentsCHATPTER EIGHT From Imperialism to Impotency: Liberal Malaise with Liberal PresidentsCHAPTER NINE Return to Hamiltonianism: Ronald Reagan and the Movement ConservativesCHATPER TEN The Emerging Scholarly Consensus: A New Realism, an Old IdealismCONCLUSION Three Presidential Paradigms: Hamiltonianism, Jeffersonianism, Progressivism