| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-15页 |
| Chapter One Loss of Congressional Supremacy before the Watergate Scandal | 第15-22页 |
| ·Congressional Supremacy Defined in the Constitution | 第15-17页 |
| ·Gradual Expansion of Presidential Power before the 1960s | 第17-19页 |
| ·Presidential Supremacy during the 1960s and the early 1970s | 第19-22页 |
| Chapter Two Congressional Resurgence against Excessive Executive Authority & Governmental Secrecy | 第22-38页 |
| ·Excessive Executive Authority & Governmental Secrecy | 第22-27页 |
| ·Sprawl of White House Staff Organization | 第23-24页 |
| ·Aggressive Assertion of Executive Privilege | 第24-27页 |
| ·Congressional Restraint on Executive Authority&Governmental Secrecy . | 第27-38页 |
| ·Intensified Oversight of the Covert Operation of the Executive | 第27-32页 |
| ·Regulation on Executive Ethics | 第32-38页 |
| Chapter Three Congressional Resurgence in War, Foreign Policy & Intelligence | 第38-50页 |
| ·Presidential Excess in War, Foreign Policy & Intelligence Deployment | 第38-43页 |
| ·Presidential Supremacy in War and Foreign Policy | 第38-40页 |
| ·Rampant Use of Intelligence Agencies | 第40-43页 |
| ·Congress’ Reseizure of Power in War, Foreign Policy & Intelligence | 第43-50页 |
| ·Constraint on Executive Power in War and Foreign Policy | 第43-45页 |
| ·Strengthening of the Intelligence Oversight | 第45-50页 |
| Chapter Four Congressional Resurgence in Budgeting Power | 第50-56页 |
| ·President’s Seizure of Budgeting Power | 第50-53页 |
| ·Escalation of Impoundment by Nixon | 第50-51页 |
| ·Nixon’s Employment of Impoundment to serve his Political Ends | 第51-53页 |
| ·Congress’ Endeavor to Recapture the Power of the Purse | 第53-56页 |
| ·Congress’ Initiatives to Curb Presidential Use of Impoundment | 第53-54页 |
| ·Congress’ Endeavor to Overcome its Fragmentation | 第54-56页 |
| Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| Works Cited | 第58-62页 |