Jordan Cash shows the Constitution to be the major source of presidential power by looking at very hard cases-presidents who are among those thought to be the weakest and least ineffective. Even these 'isolated presidents' deployed considerable power stemming from the place of the executive in the constitutional order. Original, insightful, exceptionally well written, a must read for presidency scholars and their students.
Jordan T. Cash is an Assistant Professor in the James Madison College at Michigan State University. His research focuses on American politics, constitutional law, and American political thought and development. His work has appeared in Polity; American Political Thought; Presidential Studies Quarterly; Law and History Review; Congress & the Presidency; Journal of Transatlantic Studies; and Laws. He has also published chapters in several edited volumes. He was previously a Lecturer at Baylor University and the Founding Director of the Zavala Program for Constitutional Studies, as well as a post-doctoral research specialist in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia.