Chapter 2 of 51 · Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom by John V. Denson

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First, there are many people associated with the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, to thank, including the supporters and contributors who have made this book possible. Also, thanks go to Lew Rockwell, the president and founder of the Mises Institute; Pat Barnett, who handled the Institute conference at Callaway Gardens, Georgia, where the authors in this book first presented their papers; and Judy Thommesen, Kathy White, and Jamie Creamer, who performed the Herculean task of proofreading, checking all quotations, getting permission to quote, and generally putting the book together.

I want to give special thanks to my legal secretary, Donna Moreman, who worked many extra hours in addition to her regular duties to type many drafts of my chapters and introduction, as well as keeping track of all of the other chapters which I had to read and comment upon. Also, many thanks to Dr. Ward Allen of Auburn, tax historian Charles Adams, and Patrick Reid, in my office, who all read my chapters, as well as others in the book, and gave many helpful comments.

Dedication

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Introduction

1. Rating Presidential Performance

2. George Washington: An Image and Its Influence

3. Thomas Jefferson: Classical-Liberal Statesman of the Old Republic

4. Supreme Court as Accomplice: Judicial Backing for a Despotic Presidency

5. The Electoral College as a Restraint on American Democracy: Its Evolution from Washington to Jackson

6. Martin Van Buren: The American Gladstone

7. Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Mercantilism

8. Lincoln and the First Shot: A Study of Deceit and Deception

9. President Andrew Johnson: Tribune of States’ Rights