Joseph M. Bessette

The Presidency in the Constitutional Order: An Historical Examination Joseph M. Bessette 1st edition

Marc Notes: Originally published: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1981.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Review Quotes: "The Presidency in the Constitutional Order is an unusually fine collection of essays; it reflects the coming of age of the presidency literature.... In this Bessette and Tulis have carried the standards for scholarship set by their mentor Herbert Storing. These essays are a joy to read. They are skillfully written and well documented." -Gerald De Maio, Presidential Studies QuarterlyReview Quotes:"A good collection of heretofore unpublished essays on the presidency.... All the contributions are interesting, thoughtful, and meticulously documented. Especially provocative is the excellent re-analysis of presidential "character.".. Highly Recommended."-ChoiceReview Quotes:"The Presidency in the Constitutional Order is an unusually fine collection of essays; it reflects the coming of age of the presidency literature.... In this Bessette and Tulis have carried the standards for scholarship set by their mentor Herbert Storing. These essays are a joy to read. They are skillfully written and well documented."-Gerald De Maio, Presidential Studies QuarterlyTable of Contents: Preface Introduction to the Transaction Edition (2010) Part One--Foundations I The Constitution, Politics, and the Presidency Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey Tulis II The Madisonian Presidency Ruth Weissbourd Grant and Stephen Grant III Hamilton's Administrative Republic and the American Presidency Harvey Flaumenhaft Part Two--Contemporary Issues IV The War Powers Resolution and the War Powers Robert Scigliano V Executive Privilege: Presidential Power to Withhold Information from Congress Gary J. Schmitt VI The Congressional Veto and the Constitutional Separation of Powers Murray Dry VII Presidential Selection James Ceaser VIII On Presidential Character Jeffrey Tulis IX The Ambivalence of Executive Power Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. Appendix A: Constitutional Provisions Relating to the Presidency Appendix B: Two Texts on How to Study the Presidency in the Constitutional Order, by Herbert J. Storing Contributors IndexReview Quotes: "A good collection of heretofore unpublished essays on the presidency.... All the contributions are interesting, thoughtful, and meticulously documented. Especially provocative is the excellent re-analysis of presidential "character..". Highly Recommended." -ChoicePublisher Marketing: This classic collection of studies, first published in 1980, contributes to the revival of interest in the powers and duties of the American presidency. Unlike many previous books on the constitution and the president, the contributors to this volume are political scientists, not law professors. Accordingly, they display political scientists' concern with structures as well as power, with conflict between the branches of government as well as their functional separation, and with political prescription as well as legal analysis. Underlying the entire volume is a persistent attention to the nature of executive power and its particular manifestation in the American system. Part One introduces the foundations that underlie contemporary issues, including the famous James Madison-Alexander Hamilton debate over the powers of the presidency. Contemporary political and scholarly controversies, which are the subjects of Part Two, include the constitutionality of the War Powers Resolution of 1973, the legislative veto, executive privilege and secrecy, the character of the presidency, presidential selection, and the nature of executive power. The essays in The Presidency in the Constitutional Order represent some of the most cogent thought available about the highest elected office in America, and the themes of the volume continue to be timely and provocative. Review Citations:

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Contributor Bio:  Tulis, Jeffrey K Jeffrey Tulis teaches government at the University of Texas at Austin, is the co-editor of Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought, and is author of The Rhetorical Presidency. Contributor Bio:  Bessette, Joseph M Joseph M. Bessette is the Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor of Government and Ethics at Claremont McKenna College (CMC), where he has been on the faculty since 1990. He also teaches courses in the Department of Politics and Policy at the Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Bessette received a B. S. in Physics from Boston College and an M. A. and Ph. D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Prior to coming to CMC, he served as Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics in the U. S. Department of Justice (1985-1990) and as Director of Planning, Training, and Management for the Cook County, Illinois, State's Attorney's Office (1981-1984). Dr. Bessette has also held full-time teaching positions at the University of Virginia and The Catholic University of America. He is the author of, among other works, THE MILD VOICE OF REASON: DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND AMERICAN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT and co-editor and contributor to THE PRESIDENCY IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER and THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENCY. He is currently working on a book on the death penalty in the United States.