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BL
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625387
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Shane, Peter M
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| Title & Author
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Madison's nightmare : : how executive power threatens American democracy /\ Peter M. Shane
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2009
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xi, 245 p. ;; 24 cm
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9780226749396 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0226749398 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-240) and index
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| Contents
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Madison's nightmare: how the federal government became unchecked and unbalanced -- Checks and balances in law and history -- Iraq and the (unlearned) lessons of Vietnam: presidentialism and the pathologies of unilateral policy making -- Presidentialism, national security, and the breakdown of government lawyering -- Form over accountability: executive privilege, signing statements, and the illusion of law -- The president's personal bureaucracy: administrative accountability and the unitary Executive -- Recovering the Madisonian dream: visions of democracy, steps to reform
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Executive power-- United States-- History
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Separation of powers-- United States-- History
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Representative government and representation-- United States-- History
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United States, Politics and government, 21st century
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| Dewey Classification
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320.473/04
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JK516.S435 2009
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