TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alvis,J.David
AU  - Bailey,Jeremy D.
AU  - Taylor,F.Flagg
TI  - The contested removal power, 1789-2010
T2  - American political thought
SN  - 9780700619221
AV  - KF5053 .A87 2013
U1  - 342.73/062 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Lawrence, Kansas
PB  - University Press of Kansas
KW  - Executive power
KW  - United States
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Dismissal of
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -