The specter of dictatorship : judicial enabling of presidential power /

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"Reveals how the U.S. Supreme Court's presidentialism threatens our democracy and what to do about it. Donald Trump's presidency made many Americans wonder whether our system of checks and balances would prove robust enough to withstand an onslaught from a despotic chief executive. In...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Driesen, David M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Series:Stanford studies in law and politics.
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court.
United States. > Supreme Court
Presidents > United States.
Executive power > United States.
Separation of powers > United States.
Political questions and judicial power > United States.
Democracy > United States.
Présidents > États-Unis.
Pouvoir exécutif > États-Unis.
Séparation des pouvoirs > États-Unis.
Politique et pouvoir judiciaire > États-Unis.
LAW / Constitutional.
Democracy
Executive power
Political questions and judicial power
Presidents
Separation of powers
United States
Hungary.
Poland.
Turkey.
autocracy.
checks and balances.
emergency powers.
national security.
presidential power.
separation of power.
unitary executive theory.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Avoiding tyranny at the founding
  • The rise of presidential power
  • Declining to adjudicate claims against the president
  • Implied presidential and congressional power
  • The specter of dictatorship : Poland, Hungary, and Turkey
  • Parallels to America's democratic erosion
  • Judicial treatment of presidential power in an age of democratic decline.

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