Again and again in the nation's history, presidents of the United
States have faced the dramatic challenge of domestic insurrection
and sought ways to reconcile with the rebels afterward. This book
...is the first comprehensive study of how presidential mass pardons
have helped put such conflicts to rest. Graham G. Dodds examines
when and why presidents have issued mass pardons and amnesties to
deal with domestic rebellion and attempt to reunite the country. He
analyzes how presidents have used both deeds and
words-proclamations of mass pardons and persuasive rhetoric-in
order to foster political reconciliation. The book features
in-depth case studies of the key instances of mass pardons in U.S.
history, beginning with George Washington's and John Adams's
pardoning participants in armed insurrections in Pennsylvania in
the 1790s. In the nineteenth century, James Buchanan, Benjamin
Harrison, and Grover Cleveland issued pardons to Mormon
insurrectionists and polygamists, and Abraham Lincoln and Andrew
Johnson pardoned Confederates both during and after the Civil War.
Most recently, Dodds considers Gerald Ford's clemency and Jimmy
Carter's amnesty of Vietnam War resisters. Beyond exploring these
events, Mass Pardons in America offers new perspectives on
the president's pardon power, unilateral presidential actions, and
presidential rhetoric more broadly. Its implications span fields
including political history, presidential studies, and legal
history.
After the dramatic disruptions of Trump years, American political development might do well to consider whether American exceptionalism still holds or has changed, and that would require scholars to ...be more attentive to cross-national comparisons and perhaps also to change the countries with which the United States is compared.
This article assesses recent developments in the interbranch struggle over control of the bureaucracy, specifically independent federal agencies and the impact of the unitary executive theory during ...the presidency of Donald Trump. It examines controversies that involved two Supreme Court cases about independent agencies: Lucia v. SEC (2018), which addressed administrative law judges and the president's appointment power, and Seila Law v. CFPB (2020), which addressed agency leadership and the president's removal power. The two cases have received some attention from legal scholars, but they are not well known among presidency scholars, and they are important for understanding how the unitary executive theory and the interbranch struggle over control of the bureaucracy have developed in recent years.
As the commercial aircraft industry aims to meet the challenge of 2050 emissions targets, it becomes apparent that unconventional aircraft configurations may be necessary to achieve them. Distributed ...electrical propulsion offers opportunities for improving aircraft efficiency. However, the conversion and transfer of power could prove prohibitive when using conventional machines and conductors due to weight and inefficiency. An aircraft with distributed propulsion and boundary layer ingestion is considered in this paper, and the current view of the future of high-temperature superconductor technology as applied to aircraft is explained.
Dodds reviews Calling the Shots: The President, Executive Orders, and Public Policy by Daniel P Gitterman and The Dual Executive: Unilateral Orders in a Separated and Shared Power System by Michelle ...Belco and Brandon Rottinghaus.
This article explores the evolution of human understandings of putatively natural disasters in three respects. First, it contends that human conceptions of natural disasters have dramatically changed ...over time, from placing causality and responsibility with God and religion, to nature and science, to humanity and politics. Second, it tracks part of that broad development by examining how the legal category “Act of God” has become increasingly archaic and irrelevant in modern jurisprudence. Third, it outlines the implications of this development for more robust conceptions of human agency and politics, and it considers the causes of the changing conceptions of disaster.
This article challenges conventional views about the Religious Right and the culture wars in the United States, as it contends that the general topic has often been distorted in important respects. ...Specifically, it advances several somewhat counter-intuitive claims. It contends that the Religious Right is neither a long-standing nor a monolithic entity; that it is currently relatively dormant; that cultural criticisms associated with religious conservatives are often not driven not by grass-roots populism but are cynically promulgated by mainstream Republican elites for electoral gain; and finally, that even when these efforts succeed electorally, conservative elected officials seldom enact policies that cultural or religious conservatives want. In short, much that has appeared in recent years to be a cultural crusade may, in fact, be a mere charade. Adapted from the source document.
This article challenges conventional views about the Religious Right and the culture wars in the United States, as it contends that the general topic has often been distorted in important respects. ...Specifically, it advances several somewhat counter-intuitive claims. It contends that the Religious Right is neither a long-standing nor a monolithic entity; that it is currently relatively dormant; that cultural criticisms associated with religious conservatives are often not driven not by grass-roots populism but are cynically promulgated by mainstream Republican elites for electoral gain; and finally, that even when these efforts succeed electorally, conservative elected officials seldom enact policies that cultural or religious conservatives want. In short, much that has appeared in recent years to be a cultural crusade may, in fact, be a mere charade. Cet article rejette les manières traditionnelles d'aborder la droite religieuse et les guerres de culture aux États-Unis, car il prétend que le sujet a souvent été déformé à d'importants égards. Il promeut par ailleurs plusieurs revendications contre-intuitives. Il affirme que la droite religieuse n'est pas une entité de longue date ni une entité monolithique; qu'elle est actuellement relativement inactive; que les critiques culturelles associées aux conservateurs religieux sont rarement menées par un populisme de base, mais plutôt promulguées avec cynisme par l'élite républicaine dans le but de faire des gains électoraux; et que même lorsque ces efforts ont un effet sur le scrutin, les conservateurs élus adoptent rarement les politiques que les conservateurs culturels et religieux désirent. Bref, une grande partie de ce qui a semblé être une croisade culturelle au cours des dernières années pourrait, en fait, n'être qu'une comédie.
Distributed propulsion for aircraft is a radical concept in which the generation of thrust is decentralized from the main power sources. Various implementations of this concept are being considered ...as ways of reducing aircraft fuel burn and noise impact in the future, many relying on electrical transmission. However, the power required for aircraft propulsion is orders greater than the present electrical systems on aircraft. Efficiency and weight of the electrical components will be crucial for the feasibility of an aircraft with distributed propulsion and thus, HTS technology is of strong interest. This paper explains the interest in the technology and possible means of implementation in an aircraft, including considerations of the means of cryogenic cooling. Technology targets are presented on the basis of an aircraft that uses distributed propulsion to enable boundary layer ingestion and produces 50% of its thrust electrically.
