Power and the Presidency

(Concordia University) Throughout US history, presidents have used unilateral directives to impose controversial policies, and Congress and the courts have seldom resisted says Graham Dodds in his new book, "Take Up Your Pen: Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), which chronicles how presidents came to be able to make law by a mere stroke of the pen and what the impact of these directives has been.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news