*This is the first post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. Peter Shane characterizes the American presidency as now reflecting an “organizational culture of entitlement.” His book is primarily a critique of constitutional doctrines that […]

*This is the introduction to a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. For years, Peter Shane has been sounding the alarm against an overgrown (here, he calls it “entitled”) presidentialism that seems to admit of no legal […]