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==Publications==
[[Arthur M. Schlesinger]], "The Imperial Presidency," Houghton Mifflin, 1973 ISBN 0395177138. [http://civilliberty.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=civilliberty&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pricegrabber.com%2Fsearch_books2.php%2Fbook_id%3D10382061]
====2004====
*Dana Milbank, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22665-2004Oct10.html "In Cheney's Shadow, Counsel Pushes the Conservative Cause,"] ''Washington Post'', October 11, 2004.
====2005====
*Jan Frel, [http://alternet.org/blogs/themix/#27514 "Unitary Executive Theory,"] ''AlterNet'' Blogs, October 28, 2005.
*Robert Parry, [http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/012406.html "The End of 'Unalienable Rights',"] ''consortiumnews.com'', January 24, 2006.
*Dana Milbank, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071100953.html "It's Bush's Way or the Highway on Guantanamo Bay,"] ''Washington Post'', July 12, 2006.
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*'''"The president is always right."'''—Steven Bradbury, [[U.S. Department of Justice]] lawyer, July 11, 2006. <ref>Dana Milbank, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071100953.html"It's Bush's Way or the Highway on Guantanamo Bay,"]''Washington Post'', July 12, 2006.</ref>
*'''"It's not too far from King of Everything, really."'''—Jan Frel, ''AlterNet'', October 28, 2005. <ref>Jan Frel, [http://alternet.org/blogs/themix/#27514"Unitary Executive Theory,"]''AlterNet'' Blogs, October 28, 2005.</ref>
The '''unitary executive theory''' "asserts that all executive authority must be in the President’s hands, without exception." <ref>[[Robert Parry]], [http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/011106012406.html"The End of 'Unalienable Rights',"]''consortiumnews.com'', January 24, 2006.</ref>
President [[George W. Bush]] "has been asserting from the outset of his presidency" that presidential power "must be unilateral, and unchecked."<ref>Jennifer Van Bergen, [http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20060109_bergen.html "The Unitary Executive: Is The Doctrine Behind the Bush Presidency Consistent with a Democratic State?"] ''FindLaw's Writ'', January 9, 2006.</ref>
==Cheney & Addington==
Jan Frel wrote in the October 28, 2005, ''AlterNet'' Blog<ref>Jan Frel, [http://alternet.org/blogs/themix/#27514 wrote"Unitary Executive Theory,"] in the October 28, 2005, ''AlterNet'' Blog Blogs, October 28, 2005.</ref> that Bush had, however, used this "unitary logic, including [in] many of his ill-fated choices relating to torture and the [[Geneva Conventions]]."
"And who was the author of the infamous 'torture memo?'," Frel asked? It was [[David S. Addington]], chief of staff to Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] since October 2005 and Cheney's counsel since 2001, who "believes in the Unitary Executive theory.<ref>Alexander Hamilton, [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed70.htm Unitary "The Federalist Papers : No. 70. The Executive theoryDepartment Further Considered. From the New York Packet. Tuesday, March 18, 1788,]The Avalon Project, Yale University. </ref> If you guessed that this meant the power of one CEO who decides liberty and justice for all, you wouldn't be far off," Frel wrote.
Addington was the "vice president's point man," ''Washington Post'' reporter Dana Milbank wrote October 11, 2004.<ref>Dana Milbank, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22665-2004Oct10.html wrote"In Cheney's Shadow, Counsel Pushes the Conservative Cause,"] ''Washington Post'', October 11, 2004. </ref>
"Cheney has tried to increase executive power with a series of bold actions -- some so audacious that even [[conservative]]s on the [[Supreme Court]] sympathetic to Cheney's view have rejected them as overreaching," Milbank wrote.
In July 2006, Sen. [[Arlen Specter]] filed legislation that would allow a chamber of Congress to file a lawsuit to determine the constitutionality of presidential signing statements. [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.03731:]
* ''See the Congresspedia article on [[presidential signing statements]].
==Resources and articles==
===References===
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===Publications===
[[Arthur M. Schlesinger]], "The Imperial Presidency," Houghton Mifflin, 1973 ISBN 0395177138. [http://civilliberty.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=civilliberty&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pricegrabber.com%2Fsearch_books2.php%2Fbook_id%3D10382061]
===Profiles & Reports===
*Rev. Bill McGinnis, [http://patriot.net/~bmcgin/unitaryexecutivetheory.html "Unitary Executive Theory. A Recipe For Dictatorship,"] www.UnitaryExecutive.net/www.ExecutiveTyranny.com, undated: "A deviant theory, inherently anti-American, with no place anywhere in our system of government."
*Christopher S. Yoo, Steven G. Calabresi, and Anthony Colangelo, [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/pubs/yoo-unitaryexecinmodernera.pdf "The Unitary Executive in the Modern Era, 1945-2001,"] Vanderbilt University. (143-page pdf). Undated [2002].
*Christopher S. Yoo, Steven G. Calabresi, and Anthony Colangelo,[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=690822 "The Unitary Executive in the Modern Era, 1945-2004,"] Iowa Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 2, p. 601, 2005.
===External articles===
====2006====
*Tom Engelhardt, [http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=46791 "Tomgram: A Cult of Presidential Power. The Unrestrained President,"] ''TomDispatch.com'', January 4, 2006.
*[[Robert Parry]], [http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/011106.html "Alito & the Ken Lay Factor,"] ''consortiumnews.com'', January 12, 2006.
*Chrish, [http://www.newshounds.us/2006/01/20/bin_laden_tape_justifies_unitary_executive_on_the_big_story.php "Bin Laden tape justifies Unitary Executive on the Big Story,"] ''News Hounds'', January 20, 2006.
*Steven C. Clemons, [http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001262.php "Democratic Imperative: Bush's 'Unitary Executive' Notion Must be Obliterated,"] ''The Washington Note'', February 26, 2006.
*Paul Waldman, [http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/08/unitary_executive_or_autocracy.php "'Unitary Executive' Or Autocracy?"] ''TomPaine.com'', March 8, 2006.
*Richard Stengel, [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1209946,00.html?promoid=rss_top "No One Gets a Blank Check,"] ''TIME.com'', July 2, 2006.
*Michael Ratner, [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060717/ratner "For His Eyes Only: Bush's Secret Crimes,"] ''The Nation'', July 2, 2006.
*Doug Smith, [http://www.douglasksmith.com/2006/07/the_unitary_executive_for_dumm.htm "The Unitary Executive for Dummies,"] ''DouglasKSmith.com'', July 13, 2006.
*Michael Isikoff and Stuart Taylor Jr., [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13773997/site/newsweek/ "The Gitmo Fallout. The fight over the Hamdan ruling heats up—as fears about its reach escalate,"] ''Newsweek'', July 17, 2006 (issue).
