Madison's nightmare : how executive power threatens American democracy / Peter M. Shane.
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.