As president of Stanford University, Gerhard Casper established a reputation as a tireless, forward-thinking advocate for higher education. His speeches, renowned for their intelligence, humanity, wit, and courage, confront head-on the most pressing concerns facing our nation’s universities. From affirmative action and multiculturalism to free speech, politics, public service, and government regulation, Casper addresses the controversial issues currently debated on college campuses and in our highest courts. With insight and candor, each chapter explores the context of these challenges to higher education and provides Casper’s stirring orations delivered in response. In addressing these vital concerns, Casper outlines the freedoms that a university must encourage and defend in the ongoing pursuit of knowledge.

The Winds of Freedom: Addressing Challenges to the University

Education & Teaching

Casper, Gerhard

Higher & Continuing Education

Yale University Press

The separation of powers along functional lines--legislative, executive, and judicial--has been a core concept of American constitutionalism ever since the Revolution. As noted constitutional law scholar Gerhard Casper points out in this collection of essays, barren assertions of the importance of keeping the powers separate do not capture the complexity of the task when it is seen as separating power flowing from a single source--the people. Popular sovereignty did not underlie earlier versions of the separation of powers doctrine.
Casper vividly illustrates some of the challenges faced by Washington, Adams, Hamilton, Madison, Gallatin, Jefferson, and many others in Congress and the executive branch as they guided the young nation, setting precedents for future generations. He discusses areas such as congressional-executive relations, foreign affairs, appropriations, and the Judiciary Act of 1789 from the separation of powers vantage point.
The picture of our government's formative years that emerges here, of a rich and overlapping understanding of responsibilities and authority, runs counter to rigid, syllogistic views. Separating Power gives us a clear portrait of the issues of separation of power in the founding period, as well as suggesting that in modern times we should be reluctant to tie separation of powers notions to their own procrustean bed.

Separating Power: Essays on the Founding Period

History

Americas

Harvard University Press

Building on the Past: The Making of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University

Arts & Photography

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University

Joncas, Richard

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for

Beautifully illustrated with color plates. Contributions by Gerhard Casper, Thomas K. Seligman, James Stewart Polshek, Richard Olcott, and Richard Barnes. Bibliography. Measures 10x11 inches. 143p.

Architecture

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