The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive PowerCato Institute, 2008 - 367 pages The Bush years have justifiably given rise to fears of a new Imperial Presidency. Yet despite the controversy surrounding the administration's expansive claims of executive power, both Left and Right agree on the boundless nature of presidential responsibility. The Imperial Presidency is the price we seem to be willingly and dangerously agreeable to pay the office the focus of our national hopes and dreams. Interweaving historical scholarship, legal analysis, and cultural commentary, The Cult of the Presidency argues that the Presidency needs to be reined in, its powers checked and supervised, and its wartime authority put back under the oversight of the Congress and the courts. Only then will we begin to return the Presidency to its proper constitutionally limited role. |
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America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power Gene Healy. But by the mid - 1970s , motivated in part by the " emerging Republican majority " in the Electoral College , the Right had largely abandoned its distaste for presidential ...
America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power Gene Healy. But by the mid - 1970s , motivated in part by the " emerging Republican majority " in the Electoral College , the Right had largely abandoned its distaste for presidential ...
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... power ; but it helped expose and deter presidential abuses . How Conservatives Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Imperial Presidency In a 1984 speech , looking back on his experience as a top Ford administration official , Dick ...
... power ; but it helped expose and deter presidential abuses . How Conservatives Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Imperial Presidency In a 1984 speech , looking back on his experience as a top Ford administration official , Dick ...
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... president in the lawmaking process . In addition to the veto power , the Constitution stipulates that the president “ shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union , and recommend to their ...
... president in the lawmaking process . In addition to the veto power , the Constitution stipulates that the president “ shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union , and recommend to their ...
Contents
Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers | 15 |
Progress and the Presidency | 49 |
The Age of the Heroic Presidency | 79 |
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