The evolving presidency : landmark documents, 1787-2015 /: landmark documents, 1787-2015. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Nelson.
• Editors: Nelson, Michael, 1949-
• Contents: Chapter 1: James Madison’s Notes of the Federal Convention; Chapter 2: The Constitution (1787); Chapter 3: Anti-Federalist Essays: George Mason’s “Objections to This Constitution of Government” and Cato’s “Letter No. 4” (1787); Chapter 4: The Federalist Papers, Nos. 69–73 (1788); Chapter 5: George Washington’s First Inaugural Address (1789); Chapter 6: James Madison’s Defense of the President’s Removal Power (1789); Chapter 7: The Pacificus-Helvidius Letters (1793); Chapter 8: George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796); Chapter 9: Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address (1801); Chapter 10: Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to the Vermont Legislature (1807); Chapter 11: The Monroe Doctrine (1823); Chapter 12: The Tennessee General Assembly’s Protest against the Caucus System (1823); Chapter 13: Andrew Jackson’s First Message to Congress (1829); Chapter 14: Andrew Jackson’s Veto of the Bank Bill (1832); Chapter 15: Abraham Lincoln’s Message to Congress in Special Session (1861); Chapter 16: Abraham Lincoln’s Letter to Albert G. Hodges (1864); Chapter 17: The Gettysburg Address (1863); Chapter 18: Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865); Chapter 19: Ex parte Milligan (1866); Chapter 20: Articles of Impeachment against Andrew Johnson (1868); Chapter 21: The Pendleton Act (1883); Chapter 22: Lord James Bryce, “Why Great Men Are Not Chosen President” (1888); Chapter 23: Theodore Roosevelt’s and William Howard Taft’s Theories of Presidential Power (1913, 1916); Chapter 24: Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points (1918); Chapter 25: Myers v. United States (1926); Chapter 26: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address (1933); Chapter 27: Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935); Chapter 28: United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936); Chapter 29: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Court-Packing” Address (1937); Chapter 30: Report of the Brownlow Committee (1937); Chapter 31: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order on Japanese American Internment (1942); Chapter 32: The Truman Doctrine (1947); Chapter 33: Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer (1952); Chapter 34: Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Little Rock Executive Order (1957); Chapter 35: John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961); Chapter 36: The Cuban Missile Crisis: John F. Kennedy’s Letter to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (1962); Chapter 37: Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” Speech (1964); Chapter 38: Lyndon B. Johnson’s Gulf of Tonkin Message (1964); Chapter 39: Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Equality of Result” Speech (1965); Chapter 40: Richard Nixon’s China Trip Announcement (1971); Chapter 41: The McGovern-Fraser Commission Report (1971); Chapter 42: The War Powers Resolution (1973); Chapter 43: Proposed Articles of Impeachment against Richard Nixon (1974); Chapter 44: United States v. Nixon (1974); Chapter 45: Gerald R. Ford’s Pardon of Richard Nixon (1974); Chapter 46: Walter F. Mondale’s Memo to Jimmy Carter on the Role of the Vice President (1976); Chapter 47: Jimmy Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech (1979); Chapter 48: Ronald Reagan’s First Inaugural Address (1981); Chapter 49: Clinton v. City of New York (1998); Chapter 50: Articles of Impeachment against Bill Clinton (1998); Chapter 51: Bush v. Gore (2000); Chapter 52: George W. Bush’s War on Terrorism Address (2001); Chapter 53: The Bush Doctrine (2002); Chapter 54: George W. Bush’s Signing Statement for the Defense Supplemental Appropriations Act (2005); Chapter 55: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006); Chapter 56: Barack Obama’s Campaign Speech on Race in America (2008); Chapter 57: Barack Obama’s Health Care Address (2009); Chapter 58: National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Channing et al. (2014); Chapter 59: Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address (2015);
• Edition: Fifth edition
• Publisher Details: Washington, D.C : CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 352.230973; Presidents -- United States -- History -- Sources
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483368542
• Related ISBNs: 9781483368566
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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