The Executive Unbound
After the Madisonian Republic
Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Reviews and Awards
"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