• DE CHAMBRUN, Adolphe. The Executive Power in the United States.
  • DE CHAMBRUN, Adolphe. The Executive Power in the United States.
  • DE CHAMBRUN, Adolphe. The Executive Power in the United States.
  • DE CHAMBRUN, Adolphe. The Executive Power in the United States.
  • DE CHAMBRUN, Adolphe. The Executive Power in the United States.

DE CHAMBRUN, Adolphe. The Executive Power in the United States.

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...A Study of Constitutional Law.  Translated by Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren; with a Preface by James A. Garfield.

Lancaster, PA: Inquirer Printing and Publishing Company, 1874.

8vo.; rust-color cloth stamped in gilt and blind; front cover bubbled; spine rubbed.

First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed to, “The President with respectful compliments of Mrs. Dahlgren.”  Garfield, in his Preface, called de Chambrun’s book “a worthy continuation of de Tocqueville’s discussion.” The Frenchman noted the vast increase in executive powers under Lincoln, but applauded the Congressional backlash that led to its diminution after 1865. Things were hardly as neat and settled as de Chambrun suggested. He could not have been further from the mark when he saw the enhancement of state powers against federal encroachment as the key to American political stability. Garfield’s opinion to the contrary, de Chambrun was not very perceptive about American realities after the Civil War.