Alvis, J. David, <br/><br/>
The contested removal power, 1789-2010 / 
J. David Alvis, Jeremy D. Bailey, and  F. Flagg Taylor IV. 
 - viii, 260 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - American political thought .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Decision of 1789 -- 2. From Responsibility to Rotation -- 3. Jackson to Johnson: The Rise of Congressional Delegation -- 4. The Revenge of Executive Power: From the Tenure of Office Act to Myers v. United States -- 5. The Progressive Era and Independent Regulatory Commissions -- 6. The New Unitarians -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index. 
<br/><br/> "Does the president or Congress have the power to remove executive officials? Because the U.S. Constitution is silent on this issue, it has been an ongoing source of political controversy and legal debate since the founding. Without trying to answer definitively this perennial question, the authors examine the power to remove since 1789 as both a marker of and key to understanding the expansions and contractions of executive power throughout American political and constitutional development"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780700619221 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013020174 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Executive power--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Officials and employees--Dismissal of.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF5053  / .A87 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>342.73/062