About Phillip Henderson

Phillip G. Henderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Managing the Presidency: The Eisenhower Legacy, and has edited the volume The Presidency Then and Now.

The American Presidency: The Living Embodiment of the Nation

By |2022-10-05T14:54:36-05:00October 5th, 2022|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Books, Forrest McDonald, Timeless Essays|Tags: |

Few contemporary books reflect Forrest McDonald’s prodigious research on “The American Presidency,” nor bring to bear such a breadth of historical insight. If you seek a deeply historical and substantively rich overview of the U.S. presidency, this book is without peer. The American Presidency: An Intellectual History by Forrest McDonald (528 pages, University Press of Kansas, [...]

Marshall vs. Jefferson: Then and Now

By |2022-09-25T17:22:18-05:00September 25th, 2022|Categories: American Republic, Constitution, Featured, Federalism, John Marshall, Politics, Thomas Jefferson, Timeless Essays|

In sharp contrast to John Marshall’s elitist orientation—with its em­phasis on the primacy of the national government, and restraint of the excesses of democracy—Thomas Jefferson’s philosophy was at once populistic and highly individualistic. Throughout the first decade of the American republic, competing claims regarding the proper interpretation of the Constitution and the application of its [...]

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