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Perspective

Mar. 5, 2011

The Inevitability of an 'Imperial Presidency’

The separation of powers framework has collapsed in this modern administrative state. By Eric A. Posner of the University of Chicago Law School and Adrian Vermeule of Harvard Law School.


By Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule


In "The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic" (Oxford, March 2011), leading legal scholars Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule challenge conventional wisdom regarding the ideal structure of American government while also forcing the reader to rethink their views on the rise of the imperial presidency. While most scholars object to today's level of executive power, Posner and Vermeule argue the ...

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