Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Madison’s Nightmare: How the Federal Government Became Unchecked and Unbalanced 1
5. 2. Checks and Balances in Law and History 27
6. 3. Iraq and the (Unlearned) Lessons of Vietnam: Presidentialism and the Pathologies of Unilateral Policy Making 56
7. 4. Presidentialism, National Security, and the Breakdown of Government Lawyering 82
8. 5. Form over Accountability: Executive Privilege, Signing Statements, and the Illusion of Law 112
9. 6. The President’s Personal Bureaucracy: Administrative Accountability and the Unitary Executive 143
10. 7. Recovering the Madisonian Dream: Visions of Democracy, Steps to Reform 175
11. Notes 211
12. Index 241