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What the “Unitary Executive” Debate Is Really About: The President's Inherent Powers over the Federal Bureaucracy What the “Unitary Executive” Debate Is Really About: The President's Inherent Powers over the Federal Bureaucracy
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What the Warrantless Surveillance Debate Is Really About: The President's Inherent Foreign Policy and National Security Powers What the Warrantless Surveillance Debate Is Really About: The President's Inherent Foreign Policy and National Security Powers
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2 Checks and Balances in Law and History
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Published:May 2009
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Abstract
This chapter investigates the legal debates that surround the current growth of presidential power. The 2006 confirmation battle concerning Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito brought to many citizens' consciousness the fact of a disagreement among constitutional scholars and practitioners about something called “the unitary presidency.” The issue dividing presidentialists and pluralists is whether the President's constitutionally based administrative powers include the authority to take over or command all policy making discretion that Congress has delegated to anyone within the executive branch. The Constitution simply does not command the unitary presidency in domestic affairs that the presidentialists imagine. It gives Congress and the courts considerably more influence than presidentialists would prefer in delimiting presidential authority. The inherited Constitution from the Framers provides profound roles for both Congress and the judiciary in setting the appropriate bounds of executive power.
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