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Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Envisioning the Presidency -- The Revolutionary Experience -- The Framers' Doubts and Disagreements -- Four Visions of the Presidency -- The Potent Presidency -- The Princely Presidency -- The Perverted Presidency -- The Progressive Presidency -- Theories of Political Development -- Visions of Power and the Power of Norms -- Notes -- Part I The President and the People -- Chapter 2 Selecting the President -- Introductory Puzzle: How Did Jefferson Almost Lose to His Vice President? -- The Framers' Presidential Selection Plan -- Founding Elections -- The System Fails: The Elections of 1796 and 1800 -- The Twelfth Amendment -- When Caucus was King -- The 1824 Election: The System Fails Again? -- Playing a New Party Game -- Party Rules -- The Electoral College Misfires: 1876 and 1888 -- Running (Not Standing) for President -- The Rise of the Presidential Primary and the Decline of the National Nominating Convention -- The Contemporary Nomination Process -- The Not-So-Super Superdelegates -- The Invisible Primary -- Does the Party Still Decide? -- The Contemporary Debate Over the Electoral College -- How the Electoral College Worked in the Twentieth Century -- The 2000 Election: Court Picks President -- The 2016 Election: "More Votes Equals a Loss" -- The 2020 Election and the Future of the Electoral College -- A National Leader in a State-Based Electoral System -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Public Presidency -- Introductory Puzzle: Why Did Lincoln Play Second Fiddle at Gettysburg? -- The Gauntlet of Conflicting Public Expectations -- The Old Patrician Ways -- The Constitutional Presidency: A President Above Party -- Washington's Way -- The First Inaugural Address -- Addressing the President.

The Age of Van Buren -- The Politics of Boom and Bust -- The Two Senators: Daniel Webster and Henry Clay -- The Two Generals: William Henry Harrison and Winfield Scott -- The Road to the Whig Convention -- Come Together -- "We Go for Principles, Not Men": The Democratic Convention -- See How They Run: Campaigning for President -- "The Presidential Contest Absorbs Every Thing Else" -- Tippecanoe and the Economy Too: Understanding the Election of 1840.

"With an appreciation for the realities of practice and advocacy, the book identifies Dale as part of a shift in Lambda Legal's impact litigation strategy as it moved from safer, more lucrative AIDS cases toward riskier, higher-profile work, and describes the challenges of litigating in a rapidly evolving legal and cultural environment."--Harvard Law Review.

Judging Executive Power introduces students to sixteen important Supreme Court cases that have shaped the power of the American presidency. The cases selected include the removal power, executive privilege, executive immunity, the line-item veto, as well as a president's wartime powers from the Civil War to the War on Terror. The book both brings the courts back into the teaching of the American presidency and securely fixes landmark judicial opinions within their political and historical context

A tale of two initiatives -- The initiative revolution -- The business of signatures -- In the name of the people -- Majority rules -- The initiative goes to court -- The myth of a golden age

So often celebrated as Abraham Lincoln's defining achievement, the Emancipation Proclamation is best understood as a "painful last resort" that Lincoln turned to only after repeatedly failing to persuade others to back his preferred policy of gradual, compensated emancipation, accompanied by the voluntary colonization of freed Blacks. For all its fame, the proclamation is a classic "case of command" in which the reliance on unilateral power reveals not mastery but a failure to persuade. Although Lincoln, despite all his political talents and rhetorical abilities, had scant success in persuading others to support his preferred policy, he displayed a keen grasp of the limits and costs of command, which reflected his understanding that command is ultimately, as Richard Neustadt (1960) argues, a method of, rather than a substitute for, persuasion.