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The Unitary Presidency (Hardcover)
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The Unitary Presidency (Hardcover)
Series: Presidential Briefings Series
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The theory of the unitary executive is one of the most
controversial and significant constitutional doctrines of the past
several decades. It holds that the U.S. president alone embodies
all executive power and therefore has unlimited ability to direct
the many people and institutions within the federal government's
vast executive branch. It thus justifies the president's
prerogative to organize the executive branch and to direct its
activities, to tell executive personnel what to do and to fire them
if desired, to control the flow of information, and to issue
signing statements that make judgments about constitutionality and
determine the extent to which laws will be implemented. In some
versions, it also endorses implied or inherent powers and permits
the president to completely control foreign policy and military
action. Proponents say this conception of the presidential office
is faithful to the Constitution, facilitates the sort of energetic
executive that Alexander Hamilton argued for, and enhances
administrative efficacy and political accountability for
governance. Critics say this arrangement is constitutionally
inaccurate, is belied by historical practice and legal precedents,
and is dangerously close to the monarchical power that provoked the
American Revolution - and can be especially threatening in the era
of Donald Trump. This book examines how controversies about unitary
executive power have played out from the founding era to the
present day with a focus on recent presidents, it explores
arguments both for and against the unitary executive theory, and it
looks ahead to future implications for American politics.
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