The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy
Michael J. Gerhardt
Abstract
This book challenges popular misconceptions about the presidency and the Constitution. The conventional view is that the Supreme Court is primarily responsible for interpreting the Constitution and that only a handful of presidents—our greatest—may have had some influence on constitutional development. Gerhardt suggests that, in fact, presidents who most of us do not remember have helped to shape, often in enduring ways, both the office of the presidency and the Constitution. The stories of these presidents show how their office, by design, drew them into defending its prerogatives often at th ... More
Keywords: presidential history, presidential powers, the Constitution, constitutional history, presidents
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199967797 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2013 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199967797.001.0001 |
