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Reclaiming Accountability - Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution (Paperback)
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Reclaiming Accountability - Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution (Paperback)
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Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and
accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they
must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater
accountability with the competing need for secrecy, especially in
matters of national security? Those two imperatives are usually
taken to be antithetical, but Heidi Kitrosser argues convincingly
that this is not the case--and that our concern ought to lie not
with secrecy, but with the sort of unchecked secrecy that can
result from "presidentialism," or constitutional arguments for
broad executive control of information. In Reclaiming
Accountability, Kitrosser traces presidentialism from its start as
part of a decades-old legal movement through its appearance during
the Bush and Obama administrations, demonstrating its effects on
secrecy throughout. Taking readers through the key presidentialist
arguments--including "supremacy" and "unitary executive
theory"--she explains how these arguments misread the Constitution
in a way that is profoundly at odds with democratic principles.
Kitrosser's own reading offers a powerful corrective, showing how
the Constitution provides myriad tools, including the power of
Congress and the courts to enforce checks on presidential power,
through which we could reclaim government accountability.
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