ABSTRACT

This history of presidential studies surveys the views of leading thinkers and scholars about the constitutional powers of the highest office in the land from the founding to the present.

part |58 pages

The Origins of Constitutionalism

chapter |13 pages

Constitutional Mythology

The Burns-Kendall Debate

chapter |19 pages

Original Intent and the Presidency

Hamilton versus Jefferson

chapter |24 pages

Jeffersonianism Sustained

Nineteenth-Century Thinkers

part |148 pages

Progressivism and Its Critics

chapter |22 pages

Indictment of Constitutionalism

The Progressive Reconstruction

chapter |18 pages

Critics of Progressivism

The Early Constitutionalists

chapter |25 pages

Sowing the Seeds of Progressivism

Liberalism and the Rise of the Heroic Presidency

chapter |15 pages

Anti-Aggrandizement Scholars

Attacking Liberal Government and Liberal Presidents

chapter |33 pages

From Imperialism to Impotency

Liberal Malaise with Liberal Presidents

chapter |16 pages

Return to Hamiltonianism

Ronald Reagan and the Movement Conservatives