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The Presidency in Transition
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The office got off to a good start under a very great man. The principle of the separation of powers was not yet regarded as for bidding the executive to initiate legislation. In the act establishing the State Department, Congress itself laid down a practical construction of the Constitution which, save for the interregnum of the Reconstruction Period, has left the President absolute master of his official family. A dangerous foreign situation in 1793 brought that family into existence, while it also enabled the President to translate his position as the organ of communication With other governments into a substantive, creative power. 'finally the Whiskey Rebellion provided the occasion for the first step in that course of legislation and of presidential action which has long since clothed the President in situations of widespread dis order, or threat thereof, with powers of dictatorship.
The office got off to a good start under a very great man. The principle of the separation of powers was not yet regarded as for bidding the executive to initiate legislation. In the act establishing the State Department, Congress itself laid down a practical construction of the Constitution which, save for the interregnum of the Reconstruction Period, has left the President absolute master of his official family. A dangerous foreign situation in 1793 brought that family into existence, while it also enabled the President to translate his position as the organ of communication With other governments into a substantive, creative power. 'finally the Whiskey Rebellion provided the occasion for the first step in that course of legislation and of presidential action which has long since clothed the President in situations of widespread dis order, or threat thereof, with powers of dictatorship.
262 pages, Paperback
Published August 24, 2018
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Edward S. Corwin
86 books3 followersProfessor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University.
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