"But this monistic conception of accountability, running from bureaucrats to the people through the president alone, is not the Constitution's conception of accountability."
Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD
One mark of good scholarship is that it hits as intuitive because it is so right. Sometimes though, that can be kind of depressing. As an example, I give the fact that II.A of this draft had to be written at all. (And this is a complement to Josh, irrespective of my downward spiraling mood.)
Beau Baumann 🍎
I've just posted a new (fairly short!) paper on unitary executive theory's impoverished theory of democratic accountability. Give it a read -- I'd love to hear any thoughts! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Unitary executive theory has, since <i>Myers v. United States</i>, been premised on a conception of democratic accountability. On this view, the presiden
