Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency

ISBN-13: 9780813066813 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 342 str.

Ben Lowe

Spis treści

• List of Figures
• Foreword —David Armitage
• Acknowledgments
• 1. 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
• 2. Checks and Balances: The Cromwellian Origins of the Presidency — Blair Worden
• 3. Party and Faction in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought from Montesquieu to Madison —Max Skjönsberg
• 4. 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 Slaute
• 5. 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
• 6. National Power and the Presidency: Rival Forms of Federalist Constitutionalism at the Founding — Jonathan Gienapp
• 7. Defending an Energetic Executive: Theory and Practice in The Federalist —Claire Rydell Arcenas
• 8. 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
• 9. The Political Practices of the First Presidents: The Cabinet and the Executive Branch —Lindsay M. Chervinsky
• 10. Mirror for Presidents: George Washington and the Law of Nations —Daniel J. Hulsebosch
• 11. Liberty and Power: The Classical Republicanism of George Washington and Mercy Otis Warren —Rosemarie Zagarri
• List of Contributors
• Index