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A refreshingly straightforward case that the modern presidency is unconstrained by law--and that you should like it that way. Even those who...disagree vehemently with the latter proposition will find Posner and Vermuele's arguments provocative and challenging. * American Conservative * Powerfully argued, this book is an important part of the debate over presidential power in the present world. * Choice * Provocative. * American Prospect.org * A thought-provoking book. * Library Journal * This is a book that will, for many readers, both illuminate and infuriate. It is the most full-throated embrace in recent years of the very important (and always controversial) jurisprudential theories associated with Carl Schmitt, particularly with regard to the accretion of power in the Executive Branch. If their views become widely accepted, American law--or at least the American legal academy--will never be the same again. * Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution *

A refreshingly straightforward case that the modern presidency is unconstrained by law—and that you should like it that way. Even those who...disagree vehemently with the latter proposition will find Posner and Vermuele's arguments provocative and challenging. * American Conservative * Powerfully argued, this book is an important part of the debate over presidential power in the present world. * Choice * Provocative. * American Prospect.org * A thought-provoking book. * Library Journal * This is a book that will, for many readers, both illuminate and infuriate. It is the most full-throated embrace in recent years of the very important (and always controversial) jurisprudential theories associated with Carl Schmitt, particularly with regard to the accretion of power in the Executive Branch. If their views become widely accepted, American law—or at least the American legal academy—will never be the same again. * Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution *

<br> A refreshingly straightforward case that the modern presidency is unconstrained by law--and that you should like it that way. Even those who...disagree vehemently with the latter proposition will find Posner and Vermuele's arguments provocative and challenging. --American Conservative<br><p><br> Powerfully argued, this book is an important part of the debate over presidential power in the present world. --Choice<br><p><br> Provocative. --American Prospect.org<br><p><br> A thought-provoking book. -- Library Journal<br><p><br> This is a book that will, for many readers, both illuminate and infuriate. It is the most full-throated embrace in recent years of the very important (and always controversial) jurisprudential theories associated with Carl Schmitt, particularly with regard to the accretion of power in the Executive Branch. If their views become widely accepted, American law--or at least the American legal academy--will never be the same again. --Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution<br><p><br> This exciting, contrarian, and learned book challenges the core of liberal legalism. --Jack Goldsmith, author of The Terror Presidency<br><p><br> In a relentlessly challenging attack on Madisonian pieties, Posner and Vermeule use contemporary examples to argue with verve and style that only politics can realistically check the inevitable dominance of the modern executive. --Charles Fried, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School <br><p><br> Opponents of presidential power may be discomfited by Posner and Vermeule's argument that the imperial presidency is unavoidable in the modern world. Proponents of presidential power may be equally discomfited by the authors' argument that presidential power is constrained in practice by politics. Both sides will find it difficult to identify the cracks in a provocative argument with which everyone interested in the twenty-first century Constitution must contend. --Mark Tushnet, Professor of Law, Harvart Law Sc

A refreshingly straightforward case that the modern presidency is unconstrained by law--and that you should like it that way. Even those who...disagree vehemently with the latter proposition will find Posner and Vermuele's arguments provocative and challenging. --American Conservative Powerfully argued, this book is an important part of the debate over presidential power in the present world. --Choice Provocative. --American Prospect.org A thought-provoking book. -- Library Journal This is a book that will, for many readers, both illuminate and infuriate. It is the most full-throated embrace in recent years of the very important (and always controversial) jurisprudential theories associated with Carl Schmitt, particularly with regard to the accretion of power in the Executive Branch. If their views become widely accepted, American law--or at least the American legal academy--will never be the same again. --Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution This exciting, contrarian, and learned book challenges the core of liberal legalism. --Jack Goldsmith, author of The Terror Presidency In a relentlessly challenging attack on Madisonian pieties, Posner and Vermeule use contemporary examples to argue with verve and style that only politics can realistically check the inevitable dominance of the modern executive. --Charles Fried, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Opponents of presidential power may be discomfited by Posner and Vermeule's argument that the imperial presidency is unavoidable in the modern world. Proponents of presidential power may be equally discomfited by the authors' argument that presidential power is constrained in practice by politics. Both sides will find it difficult to identify the cracks in a provocative argument with which everyone interested in the twenty-first century Constitution must contend. --Mark Tushnet, Professor of Law, Harvart Law

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Eric A. Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, and is the author of The Perils of Global Legalism, Terror in the Balance (written with Vermeule), and Climate Change Justice, among other books. Adrian Vermeule is John H. Watson Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and is the author of Law and the Limits of Reason, Mechanisms of Democracy, and Judging Under Uncertainty, and is the co-author with Posner of Terror in the Balance.

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