{"product_id":"democracys-chief-executive-9780520380912","title":"Democracy’s Chief Executive","description":"\u003cb\u003eLegal scholar Peter M. Shane confronts U.S. presidential entitlement and offers a more reasonable way of conceptualizing our constitutional presidency in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In the eyes of modern-day presidentialists, the United States Constitution’s vesting of “executive power” means today what it meant in 1787. For them, what it meant in 1787 was the creation of a largely unilateral presidency, and in their view, a unilateral presidency still best serves our national interest. \u003ci\u003eDemocracy’s Chief Executive\u003c\/i\u003e challenges each of these premises, while showing how their influence on constitutional interpretation for more than forty years has set the stage for a presidency ripe for authoritarianism.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDemocracy’s Chief Executive\u003c\/i\u003e explains how dogmatic ideas about expansive executive authority can create within the government a psychology of presidential entitlement that threatens American democracy and the rule of law. Tracing today’s aggressive presidentialism to a steady consolidation of White House power aided primarily by right-wing lawyers and judges since 1981, Peter M. Shane argues that this is a dangerously authoritarian form of constitutional interpretation that is not even well supported by an originalist perspective. Offering instead a fresh approach to balancing presidential powers, Shane develops an interpretative model of adaptive constitutionalism, rooted in the values of deliberative democracy. \u003ci\u003eDemocracy’s Chief Executive\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that justifying outcomes explicitly based on core democratic values is more, not less, constraining for judicial decision making—and presents a model that Americans across the political spectrum should embrace.","brand":"Peter M Shane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48200793227515,"sku":"9780520380912","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_36709289-9cbb-4b5d-84e6-2a3835bfaaa5.jpg?v=1780208780","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/democracys-chief-executive-9780520380912","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}