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Forrest McDonald
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LOCATION: Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Distinguished Research Professor of History, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Author of The American Presidency: An Intellectual History and Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution.
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Presidency of the United States of America, chief executive office of the United States. In contrast to many countries with parliamentary forms of government, where the office of president, or head of state, is mainly ceremonial, in the United States the president is vested with great authority and…
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