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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 Elections 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 Bush | |
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| The Reagan Revolution | |
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| The Reagan 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 Elections of 1992 | |
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| The First Year of the Clinton Presidency | |
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| The 1994 Elections 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 Election of 2000 | |
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| Bush vs. 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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| The Elections of 2002 | |
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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, 1789-2000 | |
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| Index | |