Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute and author of a number of studies criticizing executive power abuses by presidents of both parties, including the ebook "False Idol: Barack Obama and the Continuing Cult of the Presidency".
发表于2024-12-25
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The Bush years have justifiably given rise to fears of a new Imperial Presidency. Yet despite the controversy surrounding the administration's expansive claims of executive power, both Left and Right agree on the boundless nature of presidential responsibility. The Imperial Presidency is the price we seem to be willingly and dangerously agreeable to pay the office the focus of our national hopes and dreams. Interweaving historical scholarship, legal analysis, and cultural commentary, The Cult of the Presidency argues that the Presidency needs to be reined in, its powers checked and supervised, and its wartime authority put back under the oversight of the Congress and the courts. Only then will we begin to return the Presidency to its proper constitutionally limited role.
The Cult of the Presidency 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书