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Preface | |
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The Constitutional Convention | |
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Antecedents | |
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The Constitutional Convention | |
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Creating the Presidency | |
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The Making of the Presidency: An Overview | |
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Number of the Executive | |
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Selection and Succession | |
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Term of Office | |
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Removal | |
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Institutional Separation from Congress | |
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Enumerated Powers | |
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The Vice Presidency | |
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Ratifying the Constitution | |
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Implementing the Constitutional Presidency: George Washington and John Adams | |
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The Election of George Washington | |
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Making the Presidency Safe for Democracy | |
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Forming the Executive Branch | |
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Presidential "Supremacy" and the Conduct of the Executive Branch | |
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Presidential Nonpartisanship and the Beginning of Party Conflict | |
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Washington's Retirement and the Jay Treaty: The Constitutional Crisis of 1796 | |
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The 1796 Election | |
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The Embattled Presidency of John Adams | |
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The Alien and Sedition Acts | |
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The Triumph of Jeffersonianism | |
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The "Revolution" of 1800 | |
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Jefferson's War with the Judiciary | |
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The Democratic-Republican Program and the Adjustment to Power | |
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The Limits of "Popular" Leadership | |
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The Twelfth Amendment | |
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Jefferson's Mixed Legacy | |
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The Presidency of James Madison and the Rise of the House of Representatives | |
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The Presidencies of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams | |
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The Age of Jackson | |
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Jacksonian Democracy | |
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The Rise of the Party Convention | |
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Jackson's Struggle with Congress | |
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The Aftermath of the Bank Veto | |
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The Decline of the Cabinet | |
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The Limits of the Jacksonian Presidency | |
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Martin Van Buren and the Panic of 1837 | |
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The Jacksonian Presidency Sustained | |
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John Tyler and the Problem of Presidential Succession | |
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The Presidency of James K. Polk | |
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The Slavery Controversy and the Twilight of the Jacksonian Presidency | |
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The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln | |
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Lincoln and the Slavery Controversy | |
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The Election of 1860 | |
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Lincoln and Secession | |
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Lincoln's Wartime Measures | |
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The Emancipation Proclamation | |
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The Election of 1864 | |
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Lincoln's Legacy | |
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The Reaction against Presidential Power: Andrew Johnson to William McKinley | |
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Reconstruction and the Assault on Executive Authority | |
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The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson | |
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Ulysses S. Grant and the Abdication of Executive Power | |
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The Fight to Restore Presidential Power | |
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Congressional Government and the Prelude to a More Active Presidency | |
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Progressive Politics and Executive Power: The Presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft | |
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Expansion of Executive Power | |
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The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft | |
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Woodrow Wilson and the Defense of Popular Leadership | |
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Woodrow Wilson's Theory of Executive Leadership | |
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Wilson and Party Reform | |
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The Art of Popular Leadership | |
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Wilson's Relations with Congress | |
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Wilson as World Leader | |
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The Triumph of Conservative Republicanism | |
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The Harding Era | |
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The "Silent" Politics of Calvin Coolidge | |
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Herbert C. Hoover and the Great Depression | |
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The Twentieth Amendment | |
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The Consolidation of the Modern Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency | |
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The Modern Presidency Sustained: Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
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Personalizing the Presidency: John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter | |
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John F. Kennedy and the Rise of the "Personal Presidency" | |
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Lyndon B. Johnson and Presidential Government | |
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The Twenty-fifth Amendment | |
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The Presidency of Richard Nixon | |
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Gerald R. Ford and the Post-Watergate Era | |
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A President Named Jimmy | |
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A Restoration of Presidential Power? Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush | |
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The Reagan Revolution | |
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Reagan's Legacy and the Accession of George Bush | |
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The Bush Presidency | |
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Bill Clinton and the Modern Presidency | |
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The Election of 1992 | |
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The First Year of the Clinton Presidency | |
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The 1994 Election and the Restoration of Divided Government | |
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The Comeback President | |
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Balanced Budgets, Impeachment Politics, and the Limits of the "Third Way" | |
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George W. Bush and Beyond | |
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The 2000 Election | |
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Bush v. Gore | |
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The Early Days of the Bush Presidency | |
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September 11 and the War on Terrorism | |
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An Expanded Presidency | |
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Bush and the Republican Party | |
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The Modern Presidency in the Twenty-first Century | |
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The Vice Presidency | |
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The Founding Period | |
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The Vice Presidency in the Nineteenth Century | |
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Theodore Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman | |
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The Modern Vice Presidency | |
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Conclusion | |
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Appendix | |
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Constitution of the United States | |
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U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents | |
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Summary of Presidential Elections, 1789-2004 | |
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Index | |