Download or read book Judging Executive Power written by Richard J. Ellis and published by Globe Pequot Publishing Group Incorporated/Bloomsbury. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George W. Bush's presidency has helped accelerate a renewed interest in the legal or formal bases of presidential power. It is now abundantly clear that presidential power is more than the sum of bargaining, character, and rhetoric. Presidential power also inheres in the Constitution or at least assertions of constitutional powers. Judging Executive Power helps to bring the Constitution and the courts back into the study of the American presidency by introducing students to sixteen important SupremeCourt cases that have shaped the power of the American presidency. The cases selected include th.