Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers by Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore
Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers by Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore

Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers

A constitutional originalist sounds the alarm over the presidency's ever-expanding powers, ascribing them unexpectedly to the liberal...
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Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers by Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore

Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers

$90.45
Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers by Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore

Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers

$90.45
Author: Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A constitutional originalist sounds the alarm over the presidency's ever-expanding powers, ascribing them unexpectedly to the liberal embrace of a living Constitution.

Liberal scholars and politicians routinely denounce the imperial presidency--a self-aggrandizing executive that has progressively sidelined Congress. Yet the same people invariably extol the virtues of a living Constitution, whose meaning adapts with the times. Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash argues that these stances are fundamentally incompatible. A constitution prone to informal amendment systematically favors the executive and ensures that there are no enduring constraints on executive power. In this careful study, Prakash contends that an originalist interpretation of the Constitution can rein in the "living presidency" legitimated by the living Constitution.

No one who reads the Constitution would conclude that presidents may declare war, legislate by fiat, and make treaties without the Senate. Yet presidents do all these things. They get away with it, Prakash argues, because Congress, the courts, and the public routinely excuse these violations. With the passage of time, these transgressions are treated as informal constitutional amendments. The result is an executive increasingly liberated from the Constitution. The solution is originalism. Though often associated with conservative goals, originalism in Prakash's argument should appeal to Republicans and Democrats alike, as almost all Americans decry the presidency's stunning expansion. The Living Presidency proposes a baker's dozen of reforms, all of which could be enacted if only Congress asserted its lawful authority.

Author: Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash
Publisher: Belknap
Published: 04/01/2020
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780674987982


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/10/2020
Choice 03/01/2021

About the Author
Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore: - Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash is the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Miller Center Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia. He clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the DC Circuit. He has been a James Madison Fellow at Princeton University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
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