The President, office and powers, 1787-1957 : history and analysis of practice and opinion / Edward S. Corwin

Includes index.

I. Conceptions of the office. "Executive power": a term of uncertain content
Sources of the framers' ideas of executive power
The Philadelphia Convention and "The Federalist
The presidency from Washington to J.Q. Adams
From Jackson's revolution to Lincoln's "dictatorship"
The presidency occulted, Congress dominant
II. The apparatus of the presidency. Who may be president, the ban on third terms
The electoral college, dangerous breakdowns
Another danger spot, presidential disability
Oath of office, compensation, the vice-president
The oath again, Johnson's impeachment
III. Administrative chief. "Office" and appointment thereto
The president as supervisor of law enforcement, the cabinet
The removal power: the Myers and Humphrey cases
The administrative setup and the problem of reorganization
A new problem in American government: disloyalty in the bureaus
Executive immunity versus legislative prerogative
IV. Chief executive. The president as law interpreter, delegated legislative power, appropriation acts, concurrent resolutions
Military power in law enforcement: president versus Congress
Martial law under the Constitution, habeas corpus
Emergency powers of the president: the "stewardship theory"
Pardons, amnesties, reprieves
V. Organ of foreign relations. National sovereignty in the foreign field, Congressional independence and judicial abstention
"Sole organ of external relations": Hamilton versus Madison
Congressional collaboration and control: recognition
Executive of the law of nations: presidential warmaking
President versus Senate, "Personal agents," "Executive agreements"
American participation in the United Nations
VI. Commander-in-chief in wartime. Lincoln and the "commander-in-chief" clause
Delegated war power: the two World Wars
Presidential lawmaking, the war agencies, labor, "indirect sanctions"
The "stewardship theory" in total war
Martial law, military government, laws of war
The president as supreme commander of the forces
VII. Legislative leader and "institution." The Constitutional basis and "modus operandi" of presidential leadership, from Roosevelt I to Roosevelt II
Roosevelt II and Congress, the law of ebb and flow
Ancillary weapons of presidential leadership, the veto power
Collateral factors of presidential leadership, patronage, filibusters, judicial review
The president as "dictator" versus the president as leader: a new type of cabinet
"The institutionalized presidency."

Primarily a study in American public law with an approach partly historicial, partly analytical, and critical. The central theme is the development and contemporary status of presidential power, and of the presidential office under the Constitution

eng.