Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 330
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-9499-0 • Paperback • August 1999 • $63.00 • (£48.00)
978-0-7425-8047-3 • eBook • August 1999 • $59.50 • (£46.00)
Richard J. Ellis is the Mark O. Hatfield Chair in Politics at Willamette University.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Prelude to the Presidency
Part 2 Part I: Constituting the Executive
Chapter 3 One President or Many?
Chapter 4 An Executive Council?
Part 5 Part II: Selecting the President
Chapter 6 The Long and Tortuous Debate
Chapter 7 Term of Office and Reeligibility
Chapter 8 The Electoral College
Part 9 Part III: Empowering the President
Chapter 10 To Veto or Not to Veto
Chapter 11 War and Peace
Chapter 12 The Power of Appointment
Chapter 13 Pardon Power
Part 14 Part IV: Removing the President
Chapter 15 Impeachment
Part 16 Debating Presidential Power
Chapter 17 Goldilocks and the Three Branches: A President Too Strong, Too Weak, or Just Right?
The author has done an excellent job of conveying the fact that there was a real debate over the presidency specifically and the Constitution in general in which reasonable arguments could be found on both sides. Few texts accomplish this feat.
— Andrew Busch, University of Denver
Absolutely first rate—Richard Ellis is a superb writer and a thorough and original scholar. Founding the American Presidency is well conceived and well executed, perfect for any course on the presidency.
— Michael Nelson, Rhodes College
—Unique structure puts key primary materials from the Founding period together with enlightening introductions and interpretations by the volume editor.
—Highlights important questions about the office of the presidency and how it got to where it is today: Selecting the president, empowering the president, and—in an age of impeachment—removing the president.
—Questions for Discussion at the end of each chapter put students into the role of debating key issues about the presidency.
—Valuable appendixesinclude a chronology of the Founding period and the evolution of the Constitution through to a full list of constitutional amendments.