Madison's nightmare how executive power threatens American democracy
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University of Chicago Press
2009
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-240) and index Madison's nightmare: how the federal government became unchecked and unbalanced -- Checks and balances in law and history -- Iraq and the (unlearned) lessons of Vietnam: presidentialism and the pathologies of unilateral policy making -- Presidentialism, national security, and the breakdown of government lawyering -- Form over accountability: executive privilege, signing statements, and the illusion of law -- The president's personal bureaucracy: administrative accountability and the unitary Executive -- Recovering the Madisonian dream: visions of democracy, steps to reform The George W. Bush administration's ambitious-even breathtaking-claims of unilateral executive authority raised deep concerns among constitutional scholars, civil libertarians, and ordinary citizens alike. But Bush's attempts to assert his power are only the culmination of a near-thirty-year assault on the basic checks and balances of the U.S. government-a battle waged by presidents of both parties, and one that, as Peter M. Shane warns in Madison's Nightmare, threatens to utterly subvert the founders' vision of representative government. Tracing this tendency back to the first Reagan administr |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 245 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0226749428 9780226749426 |