Acknowledgments | p. xi |
An Introduction to the Debate over the Unitary Executive | |
The Oldest Debate in Constitutional Law and Why It Still Matters Today | p. 3 |
The Modern Debate | p. 10 |
Why Presidential Views of the Scope of Presidential Power Matter | p. 22 |
The Preratification Origins of the Unitary Executive Debate and the Decision of 1789 | p. 30 |
The Unitary Executive During the Early Years of the Republic, 1787-1837 | |
George Washington | p. 39 |
John Adams | p. 58 |
Thomas Jefferson | p. 64 |
James Madison | p. 77 |
James Monroe | p. 83 |
John Quincy Adams | p. 91 |
Andrew Jackson | p. 95 |
Jackson's Battle with the Bank and the Removal of Treasury Secretary Duane | p. 105 |
The Unitary Executive During the Jacksonian Period, 1837-1861 | |
Martin Van Buren | p. 124 |
William Henry Harrison | p. 130 |
John Tyler | p. 133 |
James K. Polk | p. 139 |
Zachary Taylor | p. 144 |
Millard Fillmore | p. 148 |
Franklin Pierce | p. 152 |
James Buchanan | p. 157 |
The Unitary Executive During the Civil War, 1861-1869 | |
Abraham Lincoln | p. 165 |
Andrew Johnson | p. 174 |
The Tenure of Office Act and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson | p. 179 |
The Unitary Executive During the Gilded Age, 1869-1889 | |
Ulysses S. Grant | p. 190 |
Rutherford B. Hayes | p. 196 |
James A. Garfield | p. 203 |
Chester A. Arthur | p. 206 |
Grover Cleveland's First Term | p. 209 |
The Unitary Executive During the Rise of the Administrative State, 1889-1945 | |
Benjamin Harrison | p. 219 |
Grover Cleveland's Second Term | p. 226 |
William McKinley | p. 232 |
Theodore Roosevelt | p. 238 |
William H. Taft | p. 246 |
Woodrow Wilson | p. 253 |
Warren G. Harding | p. 261 |
Calvin Coolidge | p. 265 |
Herbert Hoover | p. 273 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt | p. 278 |
The Brownlow Committee and the Reorganization Act of 1939 | p. 291 |
The Unitary Executive During the Modern Era, 1945-2007 | |
Harry S Truman | p. 305 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | p. 318 |
John F. Kennedy | p. 331 |
Lyndon B. Johnson | p. 337 |
Richard M. Nixon | p. 346 |
Gerald R. Ford | p. 356 |
Jimmy Carter | p. 362 |
Ronald Reagan | p. 374 |
George H. W. Bush | p. 384 |
Bill Clinton | p. 391 |
The Clinton Impeachment and the Fall of the Ethics in Government Act | p. 400 |
George W. Bush | p. 405 |
Conclusion | p. 417 |
Notes | p. 433 |
Bibliographic Note | p. 511 |
Index | p. 517 |
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