The Unitary Executive

副标题: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush

ISBN: 9780300121261

出版社: Yale University Press

出版年: 2008-9-2

页数: 558

定价: USD 60.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

This book is the first to undertake a detailed historical and legal examination of presidential power and the theory of the unitary executive. This theory, that the Constitution gives the president the power to remove and control all policy-making subordinates in the executive branch, has been the subject of heated debate since the Reagan years. To determine whether the Constitution creates a strongly unitary executive, Steven Calabresi and Christopher Yoo look at the actual practice of all forty-three presidential administrations, from George Washington to George W. Bush. They argue that all forty-three presidents have been committed proponents of the theory of the unitary executive, and they explore the meaning and implications of this finding.