The evolving presidency : landmark documents /: landmark documents. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Nelson, editor.
• Editors: Nelson, Michael, 1949-
• Contents: 1. James Madison’s Notes of the Federal Convention (1787); 2. The Constitution (1787); 3. Anti-Federalist Essays: George Mason’s Objections to This Constitution of Government and Cato’s Letter No. 4 (1787); 4. The Federalist Papers, Nos. 69–73 (1788); 5. George Washington’s First Inaugural Address (1789); 6. James Madison’s Defense of the President’s Removal Power (1789); 7. The Pacificus-Helvidius Letters (1793); 8. George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796); 9. Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address (1801); 10. Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to the Vermont Legislature (1807); 11. The Monroe Doctrine (1823); 12. The Tennessee General Assembly’s Protest against the Caucus System (1823); 13. Andrew Jackson’s First Message to Congress (1829); 14. Andrew Jackson’s Veto of the Bank Bill (1832); 15. Abraham Lincoln’s Message to Congress in Special Session (1861); 16. Abraham Lincoln’s Letter to Albert G. Hodges (1864); 17. The Gettysburg Address (1863); 18. Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865); 19. Ex parte Milligan (1866); 20. Articles of Impeachment against Andrew Johnson (1868); 21. The Pendleton Act (1883); 22. Lord James Bryce, Why Great Men Are Not Chosen President (1888); 23. Theodore Roosevelt’s and William Howard Taft’s Theories of Presidential Power (1913, 1916); 24. Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points (1918); 25. Myers v. United States (1926); 26. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address (1933); 27. Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935); 28. United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936); 29. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Court-Packing” Address (1937); 30. Report of the Brownlow Committee (1937); 31. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order on Japanese American Internment (1942); 32. The Truman Doctrine (1947); 33. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952); 34. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Little Rock Executive Order (1957); 35. John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961); 36. The Cuban Missile Crisis: John F. Kennedy’s Letter to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (1962); 37. Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” Speech (1964); 38. Lyndon B. Johnson’s Gulf of Tonkin Message (1964); 39. Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Equality of Result” Speech (1965); 40. Richard Nixon’s China Trip Announcement (1971); 41. The McGovern–Fraser Commission Report (1971); 42. The War Powers Resolution (1973); 43. Proposed Articles of Impeachment against Richard Nixon (1974); 44. United States v. Nixon (1974); 45. Gerald R. Ford’s Pardon of Richard Nixon (1974); 46. Walter F. Mondale’s Memo to Jimmy Carter on the Role of the Vice President (1976); 47. Jimmy Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech (1979); 48. Ronald Reagan’s First Inaugural Address (1981); 49. Clinton v. City of New York (1998); 50. Articles of Impeachment against Bill Clinton (1998); 51. Bush v. Gore (2000); 52. George W. Bush’s War on Terrorism Address (2001); 53. The Bush Doctrine (2002); 54. George W. Bush’s Signing Statement for the Defense Supplemental Appropriations Act (2005); 55. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006); 56. Barack Obama’s Campaign Speech on Race in America (2008); 57. Barack Obama’s Health Care Address (2009); 58. National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning et al. (2014); 59. Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address (2017); 60. Donald Trump’s Tweets (2017);
• Edition: Sixth edition
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks, California : CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 352.230973; Presidents -- United States -- History -- Sources; Presidents; United States; History; Sources
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781544323183; 1544323182
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