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Where do our presidents get their powers? Are those powers enumerated in the Constitution? Or are those powers bestowed by Congress? For our Founders, was the presidency essentially an instrument of legislative agenda? Or did they believe that the president possesses some sovereign right distinct and separate from Congress?
In this interview, I discuss the following with my guest:
►Is it possible to compare a modern president, e.g., Pres. Trump, with one of our Founding presidents, e.g., Pres. Washington? Would this be like comparing apples to oranges?
►What was George Washingtons' presidency like?
►Is studying America's founding period important for history's sake, or does it provide some legal structure for our current constitutional framework?
►If the past truly is a foreign country, i.e., so different than our present, then what values can we derive from studying it?
►What is originalism?
►What is pluralism?
►What are a president's process powers?
►What are president's enumerated powers?
►What are the clear exceptions to the president's Article II powers?
►Do statutes increase presidential power? Can they take away presidential power?
►What is a unitary executive?
►What agency and institutional hurdles do presidents face?
►Why is terminating federal employees such an important and controversial issue?
►Do statutes empower presidents or constrain them?
🚩About My 170th Guest Scholar:
My guest is Prof. Julian Davis Mortenson of Michigan Law, University of Michigan. He is a legal historian, constitutional litigator, and award-winning teacher who specializes in the constitutional and political history of early America. His constitutional law casebook, Constitutional Law: An Integrated Approach, has already been widely adopted in its first three years of publication; and it is now going into a second edition. Prof. Mortensen is currently working on The Founders' President, a fascinating project that we discuss in this interview.
🚩Adel Aali
host & producer
☑️Where to find my program:
Home:https://historybehindnews.com
Spotify:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Spotify
Apple:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Apple
YouTube:▶️https://bit.ly/HbN-YT-Sub
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🎵 attribution, links and license for thetheme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Where do our presidents get their powers? Are those powers enumerated in the Constitution? Or are those powers bestowed by Congress? For our Founders, was the presidency essentially an instrument of legislative agenda? Or did they believe that the president possesses some sovereign right distinct and separate from Congress?
In this interview, I discuss the following with my guest:
►Is it possible to compare a modern president, e.g., Pres. Trump, with one of our Founding presidents, e.g., Pres. Washington? Would this be like comparing apples to oranges?
►What was George Washingtons' presidency like?
►Is studying America's founding period important for history's sake, or does it provide some legal structure for our current constitutional framework?
►If the past truly is a foreign country, i.e., so different than our present, then what values can we derive from studying it?
►What is originalism?
►What is pluralism?
►What are a president's process powers?
►What are president's enumerated powers?
►What are the clear exceptions to the president's Article II powers?
►Do statutes increase presidential power? Can they take away presidential power?
►What is a unitary executive?
►What agency and institutional hurdles do presidents face?
►Why is terminating federal employees such an important and controversial issue?
►Do statutes empower presidents or constrain them?
🚩About My 170th Guest Scholar:
My guest is Prof. Julian Davis Mortenson of Michigan Law, University of Michigan. He is a legal historian, constitutional litigator, and award-winning teacher who specializes in the constitutional and political history of early America. His constitutional law casebook, Constitutional Law: An Integrated Approach, has already been widely adopted in its first three years of publication; and it is now going into a second edition. Prof. Mortensen is currently working on The Founders' President, a fascinating project that we discuss in this interview.
🚩Adel Aali
host & producer
☑️Where to find my program:
Home:https://historybehindnews.com
Spotify:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Spotify
Apple:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Apple
YouTube:▶️https://bit.ly/HbN-YT-Sub
Adel on Facebook and X.com
Support:
Click here and join our other supporters in thenews peeler community. Thank you.
🎵 attribution, links and license for thetheme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Scholars in Your Inbox?
170 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.
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