Preface
1. Madison’s Nightmare: How the Federal Government Became Unchecked and Unbalanced
2. Checks and Balances in Law and History
3. Iraq and the (Unlearned) Lessons of Vietnam: Presidentialism and the Pathologies of Unilateral Policy Making
4. Presidentialism, National Security, and the Breakdown of Government Lawyering
5. Form over Accountability: Executive Privilege, Signing Statements, and the Illusion of Law
6. The President’s Personal Bureaucracy: Administrative Accountability and the Unitary Executive
7. Recovering the Madisonian Dream: Visions of Democracy, Steps to Reform
Notes
Index