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The Constitution : provisions concerning the presidency (1787) -- Letters of Cato, nos. 4 and 5 (1787) -- The Federalist Papers, nos. 69 and 70 (1788) -- George Washington's first inaugural address (1789) -- James Madison's defense of the president's removal power (1789) -- The Pacificus-Helvidius letters (1793) -- Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address (1801) -- Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Vermont legislature (1807) -- The Monroe Doctrine (1823) -- The Tennessee General Assembly's protest against the Caucus System (1823) -- Andrew Jackson's first message to Congress (1829) -- Andrew Jackson's veto of the Bank Bill (1832) -- Abraham Lincoln's letter to Albert G. Hodges (1864) -- The Gettysburg Address (1863) -- Ex Parte Milligan (1866) -- Articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson (1868) -- Theodore Roosevelt's and William Howard Taft's theories of presidential power (1913, 1916) -- Woodrow Wilson's first State of the Union address (1913) -- The Teapot Dome Resolution (1924) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address (1933) -- Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935) -- United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936) -- |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's court-packing address (1937) -- Report of the Brownlow Committee (1937) -- Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v, Sawyer (1952) -- Dwight D. Eisenhower's Little Rock executive order (1957) -- The first Kennedy-Nixon debate (1960) -- John F. Kennedy's inaugural address (1961) -- The Cuban missile crisis : John F. Kennedy's letter to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (1962) -- Lyndon B. Johnson's "great society' speech (1964) -- Lyndon B. Johnson's Gulf of Tonkin message (1964) -- Richard Nixon's China trip announcement (1971) -- The McGovern-Fraser Commission report (1971) -- The War Powers Resolution (1973) -- Proposed articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon (1974) -- United States v. Nixon (1974) -- The "smoking gun" Watergate tapes (1974) -- Gerald R. Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon (1974) -- Jimmy Carter's "crisis of confidence" speech (1979) -- Ronald Reagan's first inaugural address (1981) -- Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983) -- George Bush's Persian Gulf War address (1991) -- Bill Clinton's State of the Union address (1998) -- Clinton v. City of New York (1998) -- Bill Clinton's "apology" address (1998). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 98027073 |
| ISBN | 1568023707 |
| ISBN | 1568023693 (pbk.) |
