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1000033
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b754403
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Healy, Gene,1970-
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The cult of the presidency : : America's dangerous devotion to executive power /\ Gene Healy.
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, D.C. :: Cato Institute,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (viii, 367 pages)
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1933995904
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: 1935308181
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: 9781933995908
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: 9781935308188
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1933995157
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9781933995151
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-356) and index.
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| Contents
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Our chief magistrate and his powers -- "Progress" and the presidency -- The age of the heroic presidency -- Hero takes a fall -- Superman returns -- War president -- Omnipotence and impotence -- Why the worst get on top, and get worse -- Toward normalcy.
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The Bush years justifiably gave 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 in order to make the office the focus of our national hopes and dreams. Interweaving historical scholarship, legal analysis, and cultural commentary, author Healy 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.--From publisher description.
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Executive power-- United States.
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Executive-legislative relations-- United States.
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Presidents-- United States.
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Executive power.
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Executive-legislative relations.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Process-- Leadership.
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Politics and government
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Presidents.
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Presidentschap.
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Uitvoerende macht.
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United States, Politics and government, 2001-2009.
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United States.
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Verenigde Staten.
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| Dewey Classification
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352.230973
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JK585.H43 2008eb
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88.11bcl
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Cato Institute.
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