Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency

Ben Lowe, professor of history at Florida Atlantic University, is the author of Commonwealth and the English Reformation: Protestantism and the Politics of Religious Change in the Gloucester Vale, 1483-1560.

• List of FiguresForeword —David ArmitageAcknowledgments1. Political Thought and the Intellectual Origins of the American Presidency: Royalism, Executive Power and the History of Ideas —Ben LowePart I. The European Origins of the American Presidency2. Checks and Balances: The Cromwellian Origins of the Presidency — Blair Worden3. Party and Faction in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought from Montesquieu to Madison —Max Skjönsberg4. Does the United States Need a Bill of Rights?: Monarchs, Presidents, and the Persistence of a Political Genre in the Age of the American Revolution —Eric Slaute5. Enlightened Despotism and the American Revolution: The Political Thought of Frederick the Great of Prussia —Caroline WintererPart II. The Politics of Constitution Making: The Executive and the Federal Union6. National Power and the Presidency: Rival Forms of Federalist Constitutionalism at the Founding — Jonathan Gienapp7. Defending an Energetic Executive: Theory and Practice in The Federalist —Claire Rydell Arcenas8. Is the Electoral College the Fundamental Problem?: New State Admissions and the U.S. Constitution —François FurstenbergPart III. Implementing an Ideal: Political Theory and Practice among the Early Presidents9. The Political Practices of the First Presidents: The Cabinet and the Executive Branch —Lindsay M. Chervinsky10. Mirror for Presidents: George Washington and the Law of Nations —Daniel J. Hulsebosch11. Liberty and Power: The Classical Republicanism of George Washington and Mercy Otis Warren —Rosemarie ZagarriList of ContributorsIndex