Excerpt from The Presidency in Transition The office got off to a good start under a very great man. The principle of the separation of powers was not yet regarded as for bidding the executive to initiate legislation. In the act establishing the State Department, Congress itself laid down a practical construction of the Constitution which, save for the interregnum of the Reconstruction Period, has left the President absolute master of his official family. A dangerous foreign situation in 1793 brought that family into ...
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Excerpt from The Presidency in Transition The office got off to a good start under a very great man. The principle of the separation of powers was not yet regarded as for bidding the executive to initiate legislation. In the act establishing the State Department, Congress itself laid down a practical construction of the Constitution which, save for the interregnum of the Reconstruction Period, has left the President absolute master of his official family. A dangerous foreign situation in 1793 brought that family into existence, while it also enabled the President to translate his position as the organ of communication With other governments into a substantive, creative power. 'finally the Whiskey Rebellion provided the occasion for the first step in that course of legislation and of presidential action which has long since clothed the President in situations of widespread dis order, or threat thereof, with powers of dictatorship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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