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Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate
Contemporary Political and Social Issues
University of Michigan Press
October 2005
384 pages
ISBN: 0472114301
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Non-Fiction
In The New Imperial Presidency, Andrew
Rudalevige
suggests that the congressional framework meant to advise
and constrain
presidential conduct since Watergate has slowly eroded.
Rudalevige
describes the evolution of executive power in our separated
system of
governance. He discusses the abuse of power that prompted
what he calls
the "resurgence regime" against the imperial presidency and
inquires as
to how and why--over the three decades that followed
Watergate--presidents have regained their standing. Chief executives have always sought to interpret
constitutional
powers broadly. The ambitious president can choose from an
array of
strategies for pushing against congressional authority;
finding scant
resistance, he will attempt to expand executive control.
Rudalevige's
important and timely work reminds us that the freedoms
secured by our
system of checks and balances do not proceed automatically
but depend
on the exertions of public servants and the citizens they
serve. His
story confirms the importance of the "living Constitution,"
a tradition
of historical experiences overlaying the text of the
Constitution
itself.
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