The Executive Unbound —— After the Madisonian Republic

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ISBN: 9780199934034 出版年：2015 页码：256 Posner, Eric A Vermeule, Adrian Oxford University Press

Legal scholars Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule argue that the great complexity of the modern world produces a concentration of power, particularly in the White House. The authors chart the rise of executive authority and they look at the legislation which was designed to limit the presidency, but failed to do so. Political, cultural and social restraints, they argue, have been more effective in preventing dictatorship than any law. Indeed, the executive-centered state tends to generate political checks that substitute for the legal checks of the constitution.