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A Republic, If You Can Keep It
The Foundation of the American Presidency, 1700-1800
Michael P. Riccards
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A Republic, If You Can Keep It

The Foundation of the American Presidency, 1700-1800

Michael P. Riccards Michael P. Riccards

June 1987

Praeger

Series: Contributions in Political Science

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Riccards has written a unique account of the creation of and early experience with the US presidency. The author first explores the English and colonial experience that was relevant to structuring executive authority at the constitutional convention (as well as the theories supporting this experience). He then turns to familiar subjects--the decision-making in Philadelphia that led to a presidency and the role of the executive article in the ratification debate. All this is accomplished with clarity and economy of writing. The longer second part of the book is an analysis of George Washington's presidency, showing that Washington followed a federalist or strong executive model. Several brief chapters discuss the man and his popularity among the American people, the condition of the executive and bureaucracy before Washington became president, and events and policies that occupied the first president. The last chapter is an epilogue that all too briefly sets the Washington presidency in comparative and historical context. . . . The book is a useful contribution to presidential scholarship. Choice
Book One: The Origins of Executive Authority
The Uncertain Heritage
The Royal Perogative
The Provincial Governors
The War Governors
Creating the Presidency
The Ratification Controversy
Book Two: The Washington Administration
The Authentic American
Cincinnatus Returns
The Grand Procession
The First Inaugeration
The Presidents Before Washington
The Bureaucracy Before Washington
The Removal Date
His Highness, the Presidency
The Debt Assumption Deal
The Establishment of the Bank
Washington as an Administrator
The Tribes and the Long Knives
Fathering the Parties
A Falling Out of Sons
The Fires of Factionalism
Towards Neutrality
The Whiskey Insurrection
The Jay Treaty
Troubles in the House--1796
French Ire to the End, 1796-97
Washington as Legend
Epilogue
Bibliographical Essay
Notes
Index
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Riccards has written a unique account of the creation of and early experience with the US presidency. The author first explores the English and colonial experience that was relevant to structuring executive authority at the constitutional convention (as well as the theories supporting this experience). He then turns to familiar subjects--the decision-making in Philadelphia that led to a presidency and the role of the executive article in the ratification debate. All this is accomplished with clarity and economy of writing. The longer second part of the book is an analysis of George Washington's presidency, showing that Washington followed a federalist or strong executive model. Several brief chapters discuss the man and his popularity among the American people, the condition of the executive and bureaucracy before Washington became president, and events and policies that occupied the first president. The last chapter is an epilogue that all too briefly sets the Washington presidency in comparative and historical context.... The book is a useful contribution to presidential scholarship. Brief bibliographical essay. Academic readers.—Choice

Michael Riccards begins his well organized and clearly written essay with chapters on The Royal Perogative, The Provincial Governors, and The War Governers, introducing the kinds of executive leadership with which Americans were familiar on the eve of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The general reader will find this introduction helpful . . . A Republic If You Can Keep It concludes with a useful guide to further reading and a valuable observation on American statecraft at the close of the eighteenth century. . . .—Presidential Studies Quarterly





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