Philosophical concept
Executive power
Executive power carries laws into effect and directs administration; its expansion in crisis demands precise constitutional justification.
- Works
- 7
- Passages
- 1,133
- Thinkers
- 5
- Traditions
- 3
Understand uses of the concept
Executive power carries laws into effect and directs administration; its expansion in crisis demands precise constitutional justification.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,133 passages across 7 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Second Treatise of Government. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: executive power, commander in chief, presidential power
Works where the concept is identified
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 982 passages
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
- Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke · 0 passages
- Summa Contra GentilesThomas Aquinas · 0 passages
- Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas · 0 passages
- The Doré LecturesThomas Troward · 0 passages