President, The Congress, and the Constitution : Power and Legitamcy in American Politics

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Summary: Erudite collection of documents supports book's thesis well
Review: Pyle and Pious do an excellent job of bringing together the proper corpus of primary documents to support their thesis that different institutions of power, especially the executive and less-so the judiciary, have not respected the constitutional confines placed on them. The two professors, through an erudite and relevant collection and commentary of source materal, including books, essays, and Supreme Court cases, make a strong argument. Moreover, the authors substantiate facts with source material and are neither implictly nor explicitly supercilious in their presentation of their commentary and sources. I personally recommend this book as either a text for use in an American Government class at the High School or college level in addition to a personal read for any one who has an acute interest in American political history.