# Executive power

- Id: `executive_power`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/executive-power/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `ed5be096f4354095d554a84dd2e88db98d5ca41f392cd5730f04b77697a255dd`

## Summary

Executive power carries laws into effect and directs administration; its expansion in crisis demands precise constitutional justification.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:troward.dore_lectures:IV",
    "passage:schopenhauer.basis_of_morality:section-13",
    "passage:locke.second_treatise:C9"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "executive power",
    "commander in chief",
    "presidential power"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 7,
    "passages": 1133,
    "thinkers": 5,
    "traditions": 3
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "political-thought",
        "name": "Political thought and democracy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/political-thought-and-democracy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "new-thought",
        "name": "New Thought and mental science",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/new-thought-and-mental-science/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_authored",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents",
        "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln/lincoln-authored-papers/"
    },
    {
        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_context",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents",
        "author": "Correspondents and archival record",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln-archive-correspondents/incoming-mail-and-context/"
    },
    {
        "id": "locke.second_treatise",
        "title": "Second Treatise of Government",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/second-treatise/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_contra_gentiles",
        "title": "Summa Contra Gentiles",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-contra-gentiles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_theologiae",
        "title": "Summa Theologiae",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-theologiae/"
    },
    {
        "id": "troward.dore_lectures",
        "title": "The Doré Lectures",
        "author": "Thomas Troward",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-troward/dore-lectures/"
    }
]
```