| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 325 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Alan B. and Charna Larkin series on the American presidency
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Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Presidents -- United States -- History.
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Presidents. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Executive power -- United States -- History.
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Executive power. |
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Electoral college -- United States -- History.
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Electoral college. |
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Constitutional history -- United States.
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Constitutional history. |
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Political science -- United States.
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Political science. |
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United States -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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HISTORY / United States / General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Lowe, Ben, 1956- editor.
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Armitage, David, 1965- author of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Political thought and the origins of the American presidency Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2021. 9780813066813 (DLC) 2020045519 |
| ISBN |
0813057752 electronic book |
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9780813057750 (electronic book) |
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9780813066813 hardcover |
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