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Presidential Inaction And The Separation Of Powers, Jeffrey Love, Arpit Garg
Presidential Inaction And The Separation Of Powers, Jeffrey Love, Arpit Garg
Jeffrey Love
James Madison famously articulated a functional account of our governmental structure; he and his Federalist brethren created overlapping authority to prevent any single branch of government from acting unilaterally to dictate policy for the nation as a whole. And for more than two hundred years, the focus has been on just that: action. But the Framers and their intellectual heirs have failed to update their story to account for the government we have. In the modern administrative state, the President’s refusal to enforce duly enacted statutes—what we call “presidential inaction”—will often dictate national policy and yet will receive virtually none …
Presidential Inaction And The Separation Of Powers, Jeffrey Love, Arpit Garg
Presidential Inaction And The Separation Of Powers, Jeffrey Love, Arpit Garg
Jeffrey Love
James Madison famously articulated a functional account of our governmental structure; he and his Federalist brethren created overlapping authority to prevent any single branch of government from acting unilaterally to dictate policy for the nation as a whole. And for more than two hundred years, the focus has been on just that: action. But the Framers and their intellectual heirs have failed to update their story to account for the government we have. In the modern administrative state, the President’s refusal to enforce duly enacted statutes—what we call “presidential inaction”—will often dictate national policy and yet will receive virtually none …