March 21, 2008
Presidential Power
The unitary executive, in theory and practice
The most influential sentence in the most influential book about the presidency of the past 50 years is seven words long. "Presidential power," the political scientist Richard Neustadt declared in his 1960 book Presidential Power, "is the power to persuade."
Persuade whom? Chiefly members of Congress, without whose support presidents cannot pass laws; and the general public, without whose approval the task of persuading Congress
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