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Name: Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
Author: Charlie Savage
ISBN: 0316118044

Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy

by Charlie Savage · 2007

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In 1789, the Founding Fathers came up with a system of checks and balances to keep kingly powers out of the hands of American presidents.

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About Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy

In 1789, the Founding Fathers came up with a system of checks and balances to keep kingly powers out of the hands of American presidents. But in the 1970s and '80s, a faction of Republican loyalists, outraged by the fall of the imperial presidency after Watergate and the Vietnam War, abandoned conservatives' traditional suspicion of concentrated government power. These men hatched a plot that would allow the White House to return to, or even surpass, the virtually unchecked powers that Richard Nixon had briefly tried to wield. Congress would be defanged, and the commander-in-chief would be…

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