| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| Constitutional history | |
| |
| |
| Approaches to separation of powers analysis | |
| |
| |
| The ambiguities of executive power : competing theories of the presidency | |
| |
| |
| An institutional overview | |
| |
| |
| Framework : the separation and confluence of powers | |
| |
| |
| Analytic framework | |
| |
| |
| Combining powers in the executive | |
| |
| |
| Fundamental checks and balances | |
| |
| |
| Autonomy and mutual accountability among the branches | |
| |
| |
| Congressional power over the membership of the branches | |
| |
| |
| Immunites of government officers | |
| |
| |
| Information and accountability | |
| |
| |
| Congressional power to regulate accountability | |
| |
| |
| Control of administration by the elected branches | |
| |
| |
| Personnel | |
| |
| |
| Independent prosecution : a contemporary synthesis | |
| |
| |
| Supervision and coordination of policymaking | |
| |
| |
| Inherent executive authority in domestic affairs? | |
| |
| |
| Foreign policy and national security | |
| |
| |
| Analytic framework : sorting the elected branches' claims to power | |
| |
| |
| Executive claims to inherent and exclusive powers | |
| |
| |
| Congress's role in regulating foreign policy | |
| |
| |
| Judicial review and foreign policy | |
| |
| |
| War powers | |
| |
| |
| Power to commit troops - from the founding to Vietnam | |
| |
| |
| Unilateral presidential initiative after the war powers resolution | |
| |
| |
| Congressionally authorized wars after Vietnam : the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars | |
| |
| |
| Domestic presidential powers in wartime | |
| |
| |
| Peace time authority to use troops for law enforcement ("posse comitatus") | |
| |
| |
| Federalism and war powers | |
| |
| |
| Power and institutional design : the case of the presidency | |
| |
| |
| Presidential elections | |
| |
| |
| Presidential and vice-presidential succession | |
| |
| |
| Redesigning the president's political role | |
| |
| |
| Appendix : selected statutes and presidential documents | |