Imperial from the Beginning
Title | Imperial from the Beginning PDF eBook |
Author | Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2015-01-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0300194560 |
Eminent scholar Saikrishna Prakash offers the first truly comprehensive study of the original American presidency. Drawing from a vast range of sources both well known and obscure, this volume reconstructs the powers and duties of the nation's chief executive at the Constitution's founding. Among other subjects, Prakash examines the term and structure of the office of the president, as well as the president's power as constitutional executor of the law, authority in foreign policy, role as commander in chief, level of control during emergencies, and relationship with the Congress, the courts, and the states. This ambitious and even-handed analysis counters numerous misconceptions about the presidency and fairly demonstrates that the office was seen as monarchical from its inception.
Imperial from the Beginning
Title | Imperial from the Beginning PDF eBook |
Author | Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2015-05-26 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0300213417 |
Eminent scholar Saikrishna Prakash offers the first truly comprehensive study of the original American presidency. Drawing from a vast range of sources both well known and obscure, this volume reconstructs the powers and duties of the nation’s chief executive at the Constitution’s founding. Among other subjects, Prakash examines the term and structure of the office of the president, his power as constitutional executor of the law, his foreign policy authority, his role as commander in chief, the president’s authority during emergencies, and his relations with the U.S. Congress, the courts, and the states. This ambitious and even-handed analysis counters numerous misconceptions about the presidency and fairly demonstrates that the office has long been regarded as monarchical.
The Living Presidency
Title | The Living Presidency PDF eBook |
Author | Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2020-04-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0674245210 |
A constitutional originalist sounds the alarm over the presidency’s ever-expanding powers, ascribing them unexpectedly to the liberal embrace of a living Constitution. Liberal scholars and politicians routinely denounce the imperial presidency—a self-aggrandizing executive that has progressively sidelined Congress. Yet the same people invariably extol the virtues of a living Constitution, whose meaning adapts with the times. Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash argues that these stances are fundamentally incompatible. A constitution prone to informal amendment systematically favors the executive and ensures that there are no enduring constraints on executive power. In this careful study, Prakash contends that an originalist interpretation of the Constitution can rein in the “living presidency” legitimated by the living Constitution. No one who reads the Constitution would conclude that presidents may declare war, legislate by fiat, and make treaties without the Senate. Yet presidents do all these things. They get away with it, Prakash argues, because Congress, the courts, and the public routinely excuse these violations. With the passage of time, these transgressions are treated as informal constitutional amendments. The result is an executive increasingly liberated from the Constitution. The solution is originalism. Though often associated with conservative goals, originalism in Prakash’s argument should appeal to Republicans and Democrats alike, as almost all Americans decry the presidency’s stunning expansion. The Living Presidency proposes a baker’s dozen of reforms, all of which could be enacted if only Congress asserted its lawful authority.
IMPERIAL REPUBLIC.
Title | IMPERIAL REPUBLIC. PDF eBook |
Author | JAMES G. WILSON |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781138727830 |
Everyday Life in Early Imperial China During the Han Period, 202 BC-AD 220
Title | Everyday Life in Early Imperial China During the Han Period, 202 BC-AD 220 PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Loewe |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780872207585 |
Considers the important aspects of life during the Han period, when the foundations were laid for the chief political, economic, cultural and social structures that would characterise imperial China.
A Great and Rising Nation
Title | A Great and Rising Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Verney |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2022-07-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226819922 |
Jeremiah Reynolds and the empire of knowledge -- The United States exploring expedition as Jacksonian capitalism -- The United States exploring expedition in popular culture -- The Dead Sea expedition and the empire of faith -- Proslavery explorations of South America -- Arctic exploration and US-UK rapprochement.
Imperial Bedrooms
Title | Imperial Bedrooms PDF eBook |
Author | Bret Easton Ellis |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2010-06-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307593630 |
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, set on the seedy side of Los Angeles. • "A haunting vision of disillusionment, twenty-first-century style" (People). Returning to Los Angeles from New York, Clay, now a successful screenwriter, is casting his new movie. Soon he is running with his old circle of friends through L.A.’s seedy side. His ex-girlfriend, Blair, is married to Trent, a bisexual philanderer and influential manager. Then there's Julian, a recovering addict, and Rip, a former dealer. Then when Clay meets a gorgeous young actress who will stop at nothing to be in his movie, his own dark past begins to shine through, and he has no choice but to dive into the recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal. Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!