Gene Healy on the Power of the Presidency

In The Once and Future
King, the conservative legal scholar F.H. Buckley argues that
the American presidency, with its vast regulatory and national
security powers, is degenerating into the “elective monarchy”
George Mason warned about at the Philadelphia Convention. Reviewing
the book, Cult of the Presidency author Gene Healy reports
that Buckley makes a depressingly good case.

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