Explores whether and how modern presidents use executive orders to establish policy unconstrained by the legislative process.

How the executive branch—not the president alone—formulates executive orders, and how this process constrains the chief executive's ability to act unilatera

The conventional wisdom holds that the president of the United States is weak, hobbled by the separation of powers and the short reach of his formal legal autho

Modern presidents are CEOs with broad powers over the federal government. The United States Constitution lays out three hypothetically equal branches of governm

During his first term in office, Pres. George W. Bush made reference to the "unitary executive" ninety-five times, as part of signing statements, proclamations,