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Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency

Posted By: roxul
Date: 20 Oct 2024 13:06:34
Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency

Peter M Shane, "Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency"
English | ISBN: 0520380908 | 2022 | 297 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Legal scholar Peter M. Shane confronts U.S. presidential entitlement and offers a more reasonable way of conceptualizing our constitutional presidency in the twenty-first century.

In the eyes of modern-day presidentialists, the United States Constitution’s vesting of “executive power” means today what it meant in 1787. For them, what it meant in 1787 was the creation of a largely unilateral presidency, and in their view, a unilateral presidency still best serves our national interest. Democracy’s Chief Executive challenges each of these premises, while showing how their influence on constitutional interpretation for more than forty years has set the stage for a presidency ripe for authoritarianism.

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