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.
- ISBN10 6612599960
- ISBN13 9786612599965
- Publish Date 1 May 2009 (first published 1 April 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 May 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cato Institute
- Format eBook
- Pages 408
- Language English