By order of the President : the use and abuse of executive direct action /
Publisher's description: Scholars and citizens alike have endlessly debated the proper limits of presidential action within our democracy. Yet few have truly understood the nature of the president's special powers and their impact on American life. In this volume, Phillip Cooper offers a c...
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
c2002
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| Series: | Studies in government and public policy
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Table of Contents:
- The tools of presidential direct administration
- Executive orders: directing the executive branch
- Strategies, tactics, and political realities of executive orders
- Presidential memoranda: executive orders by another name and yet unique
- Presidential proclamations: rule by decree
- National security directives: secret orders, foreign and domestic
- Presidential signing statements: a different kind of line item veto
- Presidential direct action and Washington rules: the dangers of power tools