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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Direct Democracy and the Puritan Theory of Membership -- 3 Democratic Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century -- 4 The Antifederalists and the Conservative Dimension of Democracy -- 5 The Ghostly Body Politic: The Federalist Papers and Popular Sovereignty -- 6 Conclusion -- Index

Presidents obtained the power to maintain law and order when they used key executive branch institutions—such as the Department of War, U.S. Attorney General's Office, and the State Department—to recover fugitive slaves. To date, there has been little discussion in political science about the development of the president's power to maintain law and order. As a result of this gap, political scientists have missed how race has contributed to the institutional development of the presidency, how nineteenth‐century presidents institutionalized the president's authority over federal law enforcement, and how the president's power to maintain law and order expands his authority over U.S. citizens via the Department of Justice. This article addresses this gap by examining the development of the law‐and‐order president from 1790 to 1860 and in the process debunks the myth that presidents were relatively weak in the nineteenth century.

In this Praxis Reflection, I reflect on the relationship between teaching and imprisonment. I describe a college program at a prison in Jessup, Maryland, and argue that liberal arts-style college classes should be widely available in prisons even as we work to dismantle the current system of mass incarceration.