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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: executive unbound
    sub title: after the Madisonian republic
  name:
    name part: Posner, Eric A.
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Vermeule, Adrian
    name part: 1968-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 249 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: "Ever since Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. used "imperial presidency" as a book title, the term has become central to the debate about the balance of power in the U.S. government. Since the presidency of George W. Bush, when advocates of executive power such as Dick Cheney gained ascendancy, the argument has blazed hotter than ever. Many argue the Constitution itself is in grave danger. What is to be done?
  abstract: The answer, according to legal scholars Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule, is nothing. In The Executive Unbound, they provide a bracing challenge to conventional wisdom, arguing that a strong presidency is inevitable in the modern world. Most scholars, they note, object to today's level of executive power because it varies so dramatically from the vision of the framers of the Constitution. But Posner and Vermeule closely examine James Madison's writings, and find fault with his premises. Like an ideal market, they write, Madison's separation of powers has no central director, but it lacks the price system which gives an economy its structure; there is nothing in checks and balances that intrinsically generates order or promotes positive arrangements. In fact, the greater complexity of the modern world produces a concentration of power, particularly in the White House.
  abstract: The authors chart the rise of executive authority, noting that among strong presidents only Nixon has come in for severe criticism, leading to legislation which was designed to limit the presidency, yet which failed to do so. Political, cultural and social restraints, they argue, have been more effective in preventing dictatorship than any law. The executive-centered state tends to generate political checks that substitute for the legal checks of the Madisonian constitution."--Pub. desc.
  table of contents: The constitutional framework -- Constitutional change -- The statutory framework -- Constraints on the executive -- Global liberal legalism -- Tyrannophobia.
  note: Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Executive power
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Executive power
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: KF5050 .P67 2010
  classification: 342.73/06
  identifier: 9780199765331 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 0199765332 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 9780199830466 (e-book)
  identifier: 0199830460 (e-book)
  identifier: 2010023201
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100604
    record change date: 20190511063210.0
    record identifier: in00003587264
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng