Benjamin A Kleinerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1199684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin A Kleinerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kleinerman |
| SIGNATURE | KLEINERMAN B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Military Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Representative Presidency in the Constitutional Order
This is a review essay reflecting on six recent publications addressing the question of the power of the presidency. The publications reviewed are Jeremy D. Bailey’s The Idea of Presidential Representation: An Intellectual and Political History, Sarah Burns’s The Politics of War Powers: The Theory and History of Presidential Unilateralism, Stephen F. Knott’s The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects …
Kathleen Bartoloni-Tuazon. For Fear of an Elective King: George Washington and the Presidential Title Controversy of 1789
The 1789 controversy over what title to use in addressing the new president, George Washington, has always seemed curious. Considering that the founders had been able to write and then ratify an entirely new blueprint of government only a year earlier, why was there such a controversy over how to address the new president? As future generations have grown accustomed to informality across classes and ranks, it seems like an unimportant question. T…
The Constitutional Ambitions of J ames M adison's Presidency
Following Richard Neustadt, scholarship on the presidency tends to focus on presidents as single‐minded seekers of political power. But, precisely because of the grandness of their political stage, presidents may, in fact, have constitutional ambitions concerning not how much power they will have but how they will wield their constitutional powers. James Madison's presidency provides an important case study of a president's constitutional ambitio…
We should see certain things yet, let us hope and believe”: Technology, Sex, and Politics in Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee
Through his modern “Yankee,” Mark Twain reveals to his readers the underlying desire to overcome the very material world he seems to want to instantiate. Although the Yankee seems a modern man who simply wants to create the conditions in Arthurian England by which his body will be most comfortable, both his zeal for this project and the trajectory of his soul's course during the book betray an underlying hope to overcome his “mortal coil” through…
Can the Prince Really Be Tamed? Executive Prerogative, Popular Apathy, and the Constitutional Frame in Locke'sSecond Treatise
Even as he recommends it as the extra-constitutional solution to the inefficiencies and insufficiencies of legislative constitutionalism, Locke'sSecond Treatiseis far more aware of the dangers of executive prerogative than the more optimistic accounts in the recent scholarship have appreciated, making Locke pessimistic about the permanent sustenance of legislative constitutionalism. This pessimism stems from Locke's recognition that the people ar…
Lincoln's Example: Executive Power and the Survival of Constitutionalism
In the wake of the Bush administration's use of executive power since 9/11, Abraham Lincoln's executive actions during the Civil War have received more attention than usual. Typically associated with the idea that constitutions should recede in favor of the rule of one during crisis situations, Lincoln's actions have been used on one side as the implicit and even explicit basis of presidential claims to increased power and on the other side as th…
A Switch in Time Saves Nine: Institutions, Strategic Actors, and FDR's Court-Packing Plan
Can the Prince Really Be Tamed? Executive Prerogative, Popular Apathy, and the Constitutional Frame in Locke'sSecond Treatise
Even as he recommends it as the extra-constitutional solution to the inefficiencies and insufficiencies of legislative constitutionalism, Locke'sSecond Treatiseis far more aware of the dangers of executive prerogative than the more optimistic accounts in the recent scholarship have appreciated, making Locke pessimistic about the permanent sustenance of legislative constitutionalism. This pessimism stems from Locke's recognition that the people ar…
Lincoln's Example: Executive Power and the Survival of Constitutionalism
In the wake of the Bush administration's use of executive power since 9/11, Abraham Lincoln's executive actions during the Civil War have received more attention than usual. Typically associated with the idea that constitutions should recede in favor of the rule of one during crisis situations, Lincoln's actions have been used on one side as the implicit and even explicit basis of presidential claims to increased power and on the other side as th…
The Constitutional Ambitions of J ames M adison's Presidency
Following Richard Neustadt, scholarship on the presidency tends to focus on presidents as single‐minded seekers of political power. But, precisely because of the grandness of their political stage, presidents may, in fact, have constitutional ambitions concerning not how much power they will have but how they will wield their constitutional powers. James Madison's presidency provides an important case study of a president's constitutional ambitio…
We should see certain things yet, let us hope and believe”: Technology, Sex, and Politics in Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee
Through his modern “Yankee,” Mark Twain reveals to his readers the underlying desire to overcome the very material world he seems to want to instantiate. Although the Yankee seems a modern man who simply wants to create the conditions in Arthurian England by which his body will be most comfortable, both his zeal for this project and the trajectory of his soul's course during the book betray an underlying hope to overcome his “mortal coil” through…
A Switch in Time Saves Nine: Institutions, Strategic Actors, and FDR's Court-Packing Plan
A Switch in Time Saves Nine: Institutions, Strategic Actors, and FDR's Court-Packing Plan
Lincoln's Example: Executive Power and the Survival of Constitutionalism
In the wake of the Bush administration's use of executive power since 9/11, Abraham Lincoln's executive actions during the Civil War have received more attention than usual. Typically associated with the idea that constitutions should recede in favor of the rule of one during crisis situations, Lincoln's actions have been used on one side as the implicit and even explicit basis of presidential claims to increased power and on the other side as th…
We should see certain things yet, let us hope and believe”: Technology, Sex, and Politics in Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee
Through his modern “Yankee,” Mark Twain reveals to his readers the underlying desire to overcome the very material world he seems to want to instantiate. Although the Yankee seems a modern man who simply wants to create the conditions in Arthurian England by which his body will be most comfortable, both his zeal for this project and the trajectory of his soul's course during the book betray an underlying hope to overcome his “mortal coil” through…
Can the Prince Really Be Tamed? Executive Prerogative, Popular Apathy, and the Constitutional Frame in Locke'sSecond Treatise
Even as he recommends it as the extra-constitutional solution to the inefficiencies and insufficiencies of legislative constitutionalism, Locke'sSecond Treatiseis far more aware of the dangers of executive prerogative than the more optimistic accounts in the recent scholarship have appreciated, making Locke pessimistic about the permanent sustenance of legislative constitutionalism. This pessimism stems from Locke's recognition that the people ar…
The Constitutional Ambitions of J ames M adison's Presidency
Following Richard Neustadt, scholarship on the presidency tends to focus on presidents as single‐minded seekers of political power. But, precisely because of the grandness of their political stage, presidents may, in fact, have constitutional ambitions concerning not how much power they will have but how they will wield their constitutional powers. James Madison's presidency provides an important case study of a president's constitutional ambitio…
Kathleen Bartoloni-Tuazon. For Fear of an Elective King: George Washington and the Presidential Title Controversy of 1789
The 1789 controversy over what title to use in addressing the new president, George Washington, has always seemed curious. Considering that the founders had been able to write and then ratify an entirely new blueprint of government only a year earlier, why was there such a controversy over how to address the new president? As future generations have grown accustomed to informality across classes and ranks, it seems like an unimportant question. T…
The Representative Presidency in the Constitutional Order
This is a review essay reflecting on six recent publications addressing the question of the power of the presidency. The publications reviewed are Jeremy D. Bailey’s The Idea of Presidential Representation: An Intellectual and Political History, Sarah Burns’s The Politics of War Powers: The Theory and History of Presidential Unilateralism, Stephen F. Knott’s The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects …
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