Jordan T Cash
Biographic Data
| ID | 2494782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordan T Cash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordan T |
| FAMILY NAME | Cash |
| SIGNATURE | CASH J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1341-4096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times: Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age by Mark Zachary Taylor
Looking over the ebbs and flows of presidential power across time, the presidents who served after the Civil War are nearly always regarded as representing a low point in presidential history; they are a series of men whom the public remembers more for their impressive facial hair and antiquated names than for any particular achievements that they accomplished in office. Yet, in this book Taylor pushes us to revise those preconceived notions and …
Compromise and the American Founding: The Quest for the People’s Two Bodies
The Constitutionally Illogical Whig Presidency
This article examines the Whig Party’s conception of the presidency and argues that it failed to take hold because the idea of an executive which is subordinate or deferential to the legislative branch is fundamentally at odds with the Constitution. To show this, I assess the four presidents from the Whig Party: William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore. Each of these presidents entered office supporting the Whigs’ …
Escaping isolation: Harry Truman and the sources of modern presidential authority
Between 1947 and 1949, Harry Truman had all the markings of an isolated president. He was unelected, faced a Congress controlled by opposition Republicans, and was opposed by major segments of his own party. Yet unlike other presidents in similar isolated positions, Truman managed to overcome these institutional obstacles and was successfully elected to his own term in office and pulled the Democrats into majorities in both houses of Congress. Th…
The Constitutional Agency of the Vice Presidency
The vice presidency is often viewed as constitutionally devoid of any importance or power. Most research on the vice presidency argues that it is only as the vice presidency moved into the executive branch and became more tied to the president that the office gained significance. Yet this significance has come at the cost of the vice presidency’s agency. Vice presidents are more powerful now, but also more subordinate to the president. By drawing…
A purer form of government”: African American constitutionalism in the founding of Liberia
The Voice of America: The Speaker of the House and Foreign Policy Agenda-Setting
This article explores how Speakers of the House act as foreign policy entrepreneurs. I examine the conditions under which speakers may successfully achieve their foreign policy goals using Henry Clay, Thomas Reed, and Jim Wright as “most likely” case studies. I posit that speakers may act with considerable agency and entrepreneurship in foreign policy, but only succeed under conditions of divided government, when they have significant support fro…
George Sutherland and the Contextualization of Executive Power
Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935) and United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936) have long been considered landmark cases on presidential power. Yet despite being decided within 1 year of each other, they appear contradictory. Humphrey’s Executor limits presidential authority, while Curtiss-Wright expands it. This article argues that we can understand these seemingly inconsistent outcomes by examining the constitutional thought…
The Isolated Presidency: John Tyler and Unilateral Presidential Power
In recent years, a growing scholarly literature has considered the presidency’s unilateral powers by examining under what circumstances presidents act alone to achieve their policy ends. This article seeks to extend this literature by examining John Tyler’s unique presidency. Lacking an electoral mandate, congressional support, and a political party, Tyler was completely isolated from institutional supports and forced to rely exclusively on his p…
George Mason and the Ambiguity of Executive Power
In studies of how the Founders viewed executive power, little has been said about George Mason despite his involvement in creating two executives: the Virginia governorship and the American presidency. This article examines how George Mason defined and arranged executive power during his forays into constitution making. I find that Mason presents a unique understanding of how executive power should be treated in a republican context and within a …
The Court and the Old Dominion: Judicial Review Among the Virginia Jeffersonians
Over the past 30 years, a growing amount of scholarly attention has been paid to forms of constitutional interpretation other than judicial review, ranging from departmentalism to explicitly removing judicial review from the court's purview. As many of these works have recognized, such skepticism is not new, but has a strong historical tradition. What has not often been noted, however, is that differing conceptions of judicial review—even opposit…
The Isolated Presidency: John Tyler and Unilateral Presidential Power
In recent years, a growing scholarly literature has considered the presidency’s unilateral powers by examining under what circumstances presidents act alone to achieve their policy ends. This article seeks to extend this literature by examining John Tyler’s unique presidency. Lacking an electoral mandate, congressional support, and a political party, Tyler was completely isolated from institutional supports and forced to rely exclusively on his p…
The Court and the Old Dominion: Judicial Review Among the Virginia Jeffersonians
Over the past 30 years, a growing amount of scholarly attention has been paid to forms of constitutional interpretation other than judicial review, ranging from departmentalism to explicitly removing judicial review from the court's purview. As many of these works have recognized, such skepticism is not new, but has a strong historical tradition. What has not often been noted, however, is that differing conceptions of judicial review—even opposit…
The Constitutional Agency of the Vice Presidency
The vice presidency is often viewed as constitutionally devoid of any importance or power. Most research on the vice presidency argues that it is only as the vice presidency moved into the executive branch and became more tied to the president that the office gained significance. Yet this significance has come at the cost of the vice presidency’s agency. Vice presidents are more powerful now, but also more subordinate to the president. By drawing…
George Mason and the Ambiguity of Executive Power
In studies of how the Founders viewed executive power, little has been said about George Mason despite his involvement in creating two executives: the Virginia governorship and the American presidency. This article examines how George Mason defined and arranged executive power during his forays into constitution making. I find that Mason presents a unique understanding of how executive power should be treated in a republican context and within a …
The Voice of America: The Speaker of the House and Foreign Policy Agenda-Setting
This article explores how Speakers of the House act as foreign policy entrepreneurs. I examine the conditions under which speakers may successfully achieve their foreign policy goals using Henry Clay, Thomas Reed, and Jim Wright as “most likely” case studies. I posit that speakers may act with considerable agency and entrepreneurship in foreign policy, but only succeed under conditions of divided government, when they have significant support fro…
The Court and the Old Dominion: Judicial Review Among the Virginia Jeffersonians
Over the past 30 years, a growing amount of scholarly attention has been paid to forms of constitutional interpretation other than judicial review, ranging from departmentalism to explicitly removing judicial review from the court's purview. As many of these works have recognized, such skepticism is not new, but has a strong historical tradition. What has not often been noted, however, is that differing conceptions of judicial review—even opposit…
The Isolated Presidency: John Tyler and Unilateral Presidential Power
In recent years, a growing scholarly literature has considered the presidency’s unilateral powers by examining under what circumstances presidents act alone to achieve their policy ends. This article seeks to extend this literature by examining John Tyler’s unique presidency. Lacking an electoral mandate, congressional support, and a political party, Tyler was completely isolated from institutional supports and forced to rely exclusively on his p…
George Mason and the Ambiguity of Executive Power
In studies of how the Founders viewed executive power, little has been said about George Mason despite his involvement in creating two executives: the Virginia governorship and the American presidency. This article examines how George Mason defined and arranged executive power during his forays into constitution making. I find that Mason presents a unique understanding of how executive power should be treated in a republican context and within a …
George Sutherland and the Contextualization of Executive Power
Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935) and United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936) have long been considered landmark cases on presidential power. Yet despite being decided within 1 year of each other, they appear contradictory. Humphrey’s Executor limits presidential authority, while Curtiss-Wright expands it. This article argues that we can understand these seemingly inconsistent outcomes by examining the constitutional thought…
A purer form of government”: African American constitutionalism in the founding of Liberia
The Voice of America: The Speaker of the House and Foreign Policy Agenda-Setting
This article explores how Speakers of the House act as foreign policy entrepreneurs. I examine the conditions under which speakers may successfully achieve their foreign policy goals using Henry Clay, Thomas Reed, and Jim Wright as “most likely” case studies. I posit that speakers may act with considerable agency and entrepreneurship in foreign policy, but only succeed under conditions of divided government, when they have significant support fro…
The Constitutional Agency of the Vice Presidency
The vice presidency is often viewed as constitutionally devoid of any importance or power. Most research on the vice presidency argues that it is only as the vice presidency moved into the executive branch and became more tied to the president that the office gained significance. Yet this significance has come at the cost of the vice presidency’s agency. Vice presidents are more powerful now, but also more subordinate to the president. By drawing…
Compromise and the American Founding: The Quest for the People’s Two Bodies
The Constitutionally Illogical Whig Presidency
This article examines the Whig Party’s conception of the presidency and argues that it failed to take hold because the idea of an executive which is subordinate or deferential to the legislative branch is fundamentally at odds with the Constitution. To show this, I assess the four presidents from the Whig Party: William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore. Each of these presidents entered office supporting the Whigs’ …
Escaping isolation: Harry Truman and the sources of modern presidential authority
Between 1947 and 1949, Harry Truman had all the markings of an isolated president. He was unelected, faced a Congress controlled by opposition Republicans, and was opposed by major segments of his own party. Yet unlike other presidents in similar isolated positions, Truman managed to overcome these institutional obstacles and was successfully elected to his own term in office and pulled the Democrats into majorities in both houses of Congress. Th…
Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times: Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age by Mark Zachary Taylor
Looking over the ebbs and flows of presidential power across time, the presidents who served after the Civil War are nearly always regarded as representing a low point in presidential history; they are a series of men whom the public remembers more for their impressive facial hair and antiquated names than for any particular achievements that they accomplished in office. Yet, in this book Taylor pushes us to revise those preconceived notions and …
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