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The Decline and Fall of the American Republic (Paperback)
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The Decline and Fall of the American Republic (Paperback)
Series: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
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Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last
half-century have transformed the American presidency into a
potential platform for political extremism and lawlessness.
Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the War on Terror are only symptoms of
deeper pathologies. Ackerman points to a series of developments
that have previously been treated independently of one another-from
the rise of presidential primaries, to the role of pollsters and
media gurus, to the centralization of power in White House czars,
to the politicization of the military, to the manipulation of
constitutional doctrine to justify presidential power-grabs. He
shows how these different transformations can interact to generate
profound constitutional crises in the twenty-first century-and then
proposes a series of reforms that will minimize, if not eliminate,
the risks going forward. The book aims to begin a new
constitutional debate. Americans should not suppose that Barack
Obama's centrism and constitutionalism will typify the presidencies
of the twenty-first century. We should seize the present
opportunity to confront deeper institutional pathologies before it
is too late.
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