“I am nothing, but I may be everything,” John Adams, the first vice president, wrote of his office. And for most of American history, the “nothing” part of Adams’s formulation accurately captured the importance of the vice presidency, at least as long as the president had a heartbeat. But a job that once was “not worth a bucket of warm spit,” according to John Nance Garner, became, in the hands of the most recent vice presidents, critical to the governing of the country on an ongoing basis. It is this dramatic development of the nation’s second office that Joel K. Goldstein traces and explains in The White House Vice Presidency. The rise of the vice presidency took a sharp upward trajectory with the vice presidency of Walter Mondale. In Goldstein’s work we see how Mondale and Jimmy Carter designed and implemented a new model of the office that allowed the vice president to become a close presidential adviser and representative on missions that mattered. Goldstein takes us through the vice presidents from Mondale to Joe Biden, presenting the arrangements each had with his respective president, showing elements of continuity but also variations in the office, and describing the challenges each faced and the work each did. The book also examines the vice-presidential selection process and campaigns since 1976, and shows how those activities affect and/or are affected by the newly developed White House vice presidency.The book presents a comprehensive account of the vice presidency as the office has developed from Mondale to Biden. But The White House Vice Presidency is more than that; it also shows how a constitutional office can evolve through the repetition of accumulated precedents and demonstrates the critical role of political leadership in institutional development. In doing so, the book offers lessons that go far beyond the nation's second office, important as it now has become.

The White House Vice Presidency: The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden

History

Goldstein, Joel K.

Americas

University Press of Kansas

Understanding Constitutional Law covers all of the central concepts and issues students encounter in any basic constitutional law course. Structure of Government issues revolve around the twin themes of federalism and separation of powers. Individual rights and liberties follow a concept organization-Due Process, Equal Protection, and First Amendment. Clearly written and authoritative, Understanding Constitutional Law addresses the central concepts and issues students encounter in most Constitutional Law casebooks. ""Structure of government"" issues revolve around the twin themes of federalism and separation of powers. Individual rights and liberties follow a concept organization - Due Process, Equal Protection, and First Amendment. • Inclusion of the some new justiciability decisions of the Roberts Court; • Discussion of Raich v. Gonzales and its impact on the Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause; • Discussion of United States v. Comstock and the Necessary and Proper Clause; • Discussion of Medellin v. Texas and the Treaty Power; • Discussion of Roberts Court decisions on dormant Commerce Clause and creation of new exceptions; • Discussion Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board; • Discussion of Boumediene v. Bush; • Discussion of Central Community College v. Katz and its impact on sovereign immunity; • Discussion of Gonzales v. Carhart and partial-birth abortions; • Discussion of District of Columbia v. Heller and the Second Amendment; • Discussion of Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. and Judicial Recusal; • Discussion of Lawrence v. Texas and homosexuality; • Discussion of Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and voluntary public school desegregation; • Discussion of Grutter v. Bollinger and affirmative action in higher education; • Discussion of Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project and the USA PATRIOT Acts effect on the First Amendment; • Discussion of Christian Legal Society v. Martinez and restrictions on religious student organizations receiving school fund;. • Discussion of McConnell v. Federal Election Commission and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and their effects on campaign finance and political speech; • Discussion of Van Orden v. Perry and the display of a religious monument on public grounds; and • Discussion of Zelman v. Simmons - Harris and school vouchers. 
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Understanding Constitutional Law

Attanasio, John B.

Constitutional Law

Carolina Academic Pr

Understanding Constitutional Law covers all of the central concepts and issues students encounter in any basic constitutional law course. Structure of Government issues revolve around the twin themes of federalism and separation of powers. Individual rights and liberties follow a concept organization-Due Process, Equal Protection, and First Amendment. Clearly written and authoritative, Understanding Constitutional Law addresses the central concepts and issues students encounter in most Constitutional Law casebooks. ""Structure of government"" issues revolve around the twin themes of federalism and separation of powers. Individual rights and liberties follow a concept organization - Due Process, Equal Protection, and First Amendment.

Understanding Constitutional Law (Legal Text Series)

Attanasio, John

Redlich, Norman

Lexis Nexis/Matthew Bender

Book by Redlich, Norman, Attanasio, John, Goldstein, Joel K.

Constitutional Law (Casebook Series)

Lexis&Nexis

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