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Two Presidents Are Better Than One

The Case for a Bipartisan Executive Branch

By: David Orentlicher

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Two Presidents Are Better Than One

The Case for a Bipartisan Executive Branch

By: David Orentlicher

“Can Orentlicher be serious in calling for a plural executive? The answer is yes, and he presents thoughtful and challenging arguments responding to likely criticisms. Any readers who are other than completely complacent about the current state of American politics will have to admire Orentlicher’s distinctive audacity and to respond themselves to his well-argued points.” —Sanford Levinson, author of Framed: America’s 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance “In this refreshingly provocative book, David Orentlicher explains why it is due time for us to reconsider dominant ideas about the presidency, now arguably our most powerful political institution.” —William E. Scheuerman, Indiana University When talking heads and political pundits make their “What’s Wrong with America” lists, two concerns invariably rise to the top: the growing presidential abuse of power and the toxic political atmosphere in Washington. In Two Presidents Are Better Than One, David Orentlicher shows how the “imperial presidency” and partisan conflict are largely the result of a deeper problem—the Constitution’s placement of a single president atop the executive branch. Accordingly, writes Orentlicher, we can fix our broken political system by replacing the one person, one-party presidency with a two-person, two-party executive branch. Orentlicher contends that our founding fathers did not anticipate the extent to which their checks and balances would fail to contain executive power and partisan discord. As the stakes in presidential elections have grown ever higher since the New Deal, battles to capture the White House have greatly exacerbated partisan differences. Had the framers been able to predict the future, Orentlicher argues, they would have been far less enamored with the idea of a single leader at the head of the executive branch and far more receptive to the alternative proposals for a plural executive that they rejected. Analyzing the histories of other countries with a plural executive branch and past examples of bipartisan cooperation within Congress, Orentlicher shows us why and how to implement a two-person, two-party presidency. Ultimately, Two Presidents Are Better Than One demonstrates why we need constitutional reform to rebalance power between the executive and legislative branches and contain partisan conflict in Washington. David Orentlicher is Samuel R. Rosen Professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. A scholar of constitutional law and a former state representative, David also has taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago Law School. He earned degrees in law and medicine at Harvard and specializes as well in health care law and ethics.

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NYU Press

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0814789498

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9780814789490

The Beginner's Guide to American History (Illustrated Edition)

By: David Henry Montgomery

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The Beginner's Guide to American History (Illustrated Edition)

By: David Henry Montgomery

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Object of this book is to present clearly and accurately facts and principles in the lives of some of the chief founders and builders of America which would be of interest for everyone interested in history. Contents: Columbus John and Sebastian Cabot Balboa, Ponce De Leon, and De Soto Sir Walter Raleigh Captain John Smith Captain Henry Hudson Captain Myles Standish Lord Baltimore Roger Williams King Philip William Penn General James Oglethorpe Benjamin Franklin George Washington Daniel Boone General James Robertson Governor John Sevier General George Rogers Clark General Rufus Putnam Eli Whitney Thomas Jefferson Robert Fulton General William Henry Harrison General Andrew Jackson Professor Samuel F. B. Morse General Sam Houston Captain Robert Gray Captain J. A. Sutter Abraham Lincoln

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264

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e-artnow

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8027246687

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9788027246687

Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society 1740-1890

By: David Hampton,Myrtle Hull

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Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society 1740-1890

By: David Hampton,Myrtle Hull

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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113489905X

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9781134899050

Descendancy

By: David Fitzpatrick

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Descendancy

By: David Fitzpatrick

A compelling account of Protestant loss of power and self-confidence in Ireland since 1795, illustrating how 'descendancy' was experienced and perceived.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107080932

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9781107080935

Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaitan Kastom

By: David W. Akin

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Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaitan Kastom

By: David W. Akin

This book is a political history of the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1927, when the last violent resistance to colonial rule was crushed, to 1953 and the inauguration of the island’s first representative political body, the Malaita Council. At the book’s heart is a political movement known as Maasina Rule, which dominated political affairs in the southeastern Solomons for many years after World War II. The movement’s ideology, kastom, was grounded in the determination that only Malaitans themselves could properly chart their future through application of Malaitan sensibilities and methods, free from British interference. Kastom promoted a radical transformation of Malaitan lives by sweeping social engineering projects and alternative governing and legal structures. When the government tried to suppress Maasina Rule through force, its followers brought colonial administration on the island to a halt for several years through a labor strike and massive civil resistance actions that overflowed government prison camps. David Akin draws on extensive archival and field research to present a practice-based analysis of colonial officers’ interactions with Malaitans in the years leading up to and during Maasina Rule. A primary focus is the place of knowledge in the colonial administration. Many scholars have explored how various regimes deployed “colonial knowledge” of subject populations in Asia and Africa to reorder and rule them. The British imported to the Solomons models for “native administration” based on such an approach, particularly schemes of indirect rule developed in Africa. The concept of “custom” was basic to these schemes and to European understandings of Melanesians, and it was made the lynchpin of government policies that granted limited political roles to local ideas and practices. Officers knew very little about Malaitan cultures, however, and Malaitans seized the opportunity to transform custom into kastom, as the foundation for a new society. The book’s overarching topic is the dangerous road that colonial ignorance paved for policy makers, from young cadets in the field to high officials in distant Fiji and London. Today kastom remains a powerful concept on Malaita, but continued confusion regarding its origins, history, and meanings hampers understandings of contemporary Malaitan politics and of Malaitan people’s ongoing, problematic relations with the state.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824838157

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9780824838157

The Sepoy and the Raj

The Indian Army, 1860-1940

By: David Omissi

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The Sepoy and the Raj

The Indian Army, 1860-1940

By: David Omissi

This is the first scholarly study of the subject for twenty years, and the only one based on extensive archival research. The Indian Army conquered India for the British, and protected the Raj against its enemies within and without. In this evocative and compassionate work, David Omissi examines the origins, motives and protests of the several million Indian peasant- soldiers who served the colonial power.

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Springer

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1349147680

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Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2

A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo- Volume II: M to Z

By: Janet Bromley,David Bromley

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Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2

A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo- Volume II: M to Z

By: Janet Bromley,David Bromley

Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work which has been compiled on behalf of the Association of Friends of the Waterloo Committee and contains over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo between 1808 and 1815, together with 150 battlefield and regimental memorials in 24 countries worldwide.?

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Pen and Sword

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1848847505

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9781848847507

Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?

What Early Communities Have To Tell Us

By: David Mathews

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Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?

What Early Communities Have To Tell Us

By: David Mathews

One of the most compelling issues in public education involves what it means for schools to be public. Are they public in funding or public in oversight and control? Are they public in the values they convey or in the standards they set? Are they public in deciding curriculum or only in access to space? David Matthews probes these issues in 19th century Alabama in ways that no one else has attempted. And he provides lessons from the past that can inform the present and future.

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NewSouth Books

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1603062602

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Book's by David Henry Montgomery

Two Presidents Are Better Than One

Two Presidents Are Better Than One

The Beginner's Guide to American History (Illustrated Edition)

The Beginner's Guide to American History (Illustrated Edition)

Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society 1740-1890

Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society 1740-1890

Descendancy

Descendancy

Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaitan Kastom

Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaitan Kastom

The Sepoy and the Raj

The Sepoy and the Raj

Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2

Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2

Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?

Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?

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