Traditional –1789-1933

Invention

Maintenance

Occasional Peaks, Much Stability

Modern –1933 to Present

Reinvention- What Motivated?

Reinvention-How?

Amendment

Legislation

Practice
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Inventing the Presidency

When and why?

Plural or single?

How to be selected?

Term or terms?

Qualifications?

Removal?

General and specific powers?

Checks, limits?

Filling the Role

Periods of growth, broken by

long periods of stability.

Washington,

Jefferson

Lincoln
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Modern Presidency

Reinvention-What motivated?

Depression

War

Communications tech

Presidential promise

Public expectation

Reinvention-How?

Amendment

Legislation

Presidential choice

And action

Reaction

Flow and ebb and flow