Democracy's Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency

by Peter M Shane and Peter M. Shane

Book Overview

Legal scholar Peter M. Shane confronts U.S. presidential entitlement and offers a more reasonable way of conceptualizing our constitutional presidency in the twenty-first century. In the eyes of modern-day presidentialists, the United States Constitution's vesting of "executive power" means today what it meant in 1787. For them, what it meant in 1787 was the creation of a largely unilateral presidency, and in their view, a unilateral presidency still...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520380908
• ISBN13: 9780520380905
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"