Reclaiming Accountability : Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution / Heidi Kitrosser.
2015
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Title
Reclaiming Accountability : Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution / Heidi Kitrosser.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2014
Description
1 online resource (272 p.)
Formatted Contents Note
Frontmatter
Contents
Chapter 1. The Constitutional Law of Government Secrecy
Chapter 2. The Tools and Politics of Constitutional Meaning
Chapter 3. Substantive Accountability and External Checking
Chapter 4. Supremacy Explained and Critiqued
Chapter 5. How Supremacy Undermines Substantive Accountability
Chapter 6. Presidential Supremacy in the Courts
Chapter 7. Substantive Accountability and Internal Checking
Chapter 8. How Unitary Executive Theory Undermines Substantive Accountability
Chapter 9. Where Do We Go from Here?
Notes
Index
Contents
Chapter 1. The Constitutional Law of Government Secrecy
Chapter 2. The Tools and Politics of Constitutional Meaning
Chapter 3. Substantive Accountability and External Checking
Chapter 4. Supremacy Explained and Critiqued
Chapter 5. How Supremacy Undermines Substantive Accountability
Chapter 6. Presidential Supremacy in the Courts
Chapter 7. Substantive Accountability and Internal Checking
Chapter 8. How Unitary Executive Theory Undermines Substantive Accountability
Chapter 9. Where Do We Go from Here?
Notes
Index
Summary
Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy, especially in matters of national security? Those two imperatives are usually taken to be antithetical, but Heidi Kitrosser argues convincingly that this is not the case-and that our concern ought to lie not with secrecy, but with the sort of unchecked secrecy that can result from "presidentialism," or constitutional arguments for broad executive control of information. In Reclaiming Accountability, Kitrosser traces presidentialism from its start as part of a decades-old legal movement through its appearance during the Bush and Obama administrations, demonstrating its effects on secrecy throughout. Taking readers through the key presidentialist arguments-including "supremacy" and "unitary executive theory"-she explains how these arguments misread the Constitution in a way that is profoundly at odds with democratic principles. Kitrosser's own reading offers a powerful corrective, showing how the Constitution provides myriad tools, including the power of Congress and the courts to enforce checks on presidential power, through which we could reclaim government accountability.
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In English.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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English
ISBN
9780226191775
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