President and Congress / by Wilfred E. Binkley.

Includes index

Bibliogr.: p.384-395

Contents: The problem in the Constitutional convention: How shall the executive be related to the legislature? -- The solution of the Federalist party. -- The solution of the Jeffersonian republicans. -- The Jacksonian revolution. -- The Jacksonian view of the executive prevails. -- Lincoln and Congress. -- The reaction against the executive. -- The hegemony of the Senate. -- Congressional government. -- The leadership of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. -- The theory and practice of Woodrow Wilson. -- Three typical Republican presidents. -- The presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. -- The presidency in world war II. -- Summary and conclusions