{"product_id":"democracys-chief-executive-peter-m-shane-9780520380905","title":"Democracy's Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter M. Shane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520380908\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520380905\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 5.91w x 1.18d","brand":"Peter M. Shane","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43945464103167,"sku":"9780520380905","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_db1421a7-40e9-420e-a772-1cfcacc62f2b.jpg?v=1681508441","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/democracys-chief-executive-peter-m-shane-9780520380905","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}