Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (550 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521127386 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bailey has accomplished something truly remarkable. Bailey persuasively agues that Jefferson first built a strong executive on democratic grounds, thus anticipating the transformation in the Presidency usually attributed to Andrew Jackson. Rahe, University of Tulsa"Lucid and systematic, Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power is indispensable for understanding how the American presidency built on democratic thought. It sheds light on the early republic, and on our own." -Keith Whittington, Princeton University"Jeremy Bailey sets out to correct a very old misapprehension about Jefferson and executive powers, to wit, that Jefferson was an enemy to an energetic and strong executive-in theory at least. At a time when we are once again pondering the nature of executive powers and limits, this is a book
The first was opposed to a strong executive, while the second embraced one out of necessity. It presents Jefferson's understanding of executive power, which, though it developed over time, pointed to an executive that was both democratic and powerful.. This book challenges this account. His solution to this problem offers a democratic, yet strong, alternative to the more common, Hamiltonian solution. Jefferson scholars have long written of 'two Jeffersons,' one before he became president and one after he became president. This book examines Thomas Jefferson's attempt to combine respect for a fundamental constitution with the fact that no set of laws can foresee every event
E. Bailey is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. Schattschneider Award for best dissertation in American politics written in 2002 or 2003 and has received fellowships from the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He was the co-winner of t