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Gerald Ford and the Separation of Powers - Preserving the Constitutional Presidency in the Post-Watergate Period (Hardcover)
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Gerald Ford and the Separation of Powers - Preserving the Constitutional Presidency in the Post-Watergate Period (Hardcover)
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The constitutional presidency is the crown jewel of the separation
of powers in the American system. Designed in 1787, the office was
structured to weather a wide variety of political circumstances,
accommodate broad ranges of personalities in its incumbents and
educate officeholders to become better presidents. Nowhere are
these three effects clearer than during the brief, unelected tenure
of President Gerald Ford, because he occupied the presidency amid
tremendous strains on the country and the separation of powers.
After the dual traumas of Watergate and Vietnam, the public was
profoundly skeptical of government in general and the presidency in
particular. As a result, the post-Watergate Congress claimed the
mantle of public support and proposed reforms that could have
crippled the presidency's constitutional powers. Weakened by the
Nixon pardon, Ford stood alone in this environment without many of
the informal political strengths associated with the modern
presidency. As a result he had to rely, in large measure, on the
formal powers of his constitutional office. Based on archival
research, this book shows that Ford's presidency placed the
Constitution at the center of his time in office. The
constitutional presidency allowed him to preserve his own political
life, his presidential office, and the separation of powers amid a
turbulent chapter in American history.
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