Academic

Goldoni on Ackerman on the Presidency

By Lawrence Solum

Marco Goldoni (University of Antwerp - Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values) has posted An Extremist Monarchy in the Guise of a Republic? Remarks on Ackerman's Proposals for the American Presidency on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

After having outlined the main arguments put forward by Bruce Ackerman in "The Decline and Fall of the American Republic", this paper assesses how effective are some of the proposals advanced in order to counter the dangers of the American presidency: the introduction of a Deliberation Day and the creation of a Supreme Executive Tribunal. In the last section, the paper points out a potential contradiction between Ackerman's critique of the role of the presidency and his theory of constitutional transformation.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on January 24, 2011 (boomark / email).