TY - BOOK AU - Dodds,Graham G. ED - Project Muse. ED - Project Muse. TI - Take up your pen: unilateral presidential directives in American politics SN - 9780812208153 AV - KF5053 .D62 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Philadelphia, Pa. PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - United States KW - Executive Office of the President KW - Proclamations KW - Executive power KW - Executive orders KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index; Chapter 1. Unilateral directives and the presidency -- Chapter 2. The constitutional executive -- Chapter 3. Judicial sanction -- Chapter 4. Early unilateral presidential directives -- Chapter 5. Theodore Roosevelt and the rise of unilateral presidential directives -- Chapter 6. Unilateral Presidential directives from Roosevelt to Roosevelt: Taft through FDR -- Chapter 7. Unilaterial Presidential directives from postwar era to the present day -- Chapter 8. Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgement N2 - Graham G. Dodds explores the constitutional and historical development of unilateral presidential directives, the ability of presidents to bypass the legislative process and set public policy via their own executive orders, and how such a practice fits Americans' conception of democracy UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780812208153/ ER -