The Case for the Strong Executive HARVEY C. MANSFIELD Complaints against the "imperial presidency" are back in vogue. With a view to President Bush, the late Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. expanded and reissued the book of the same name he wrote against Richard Nixon, and Bush critics have taken up the phrase in a chorus. In response John Yoo and Richard Posner (and others) have defended the war powers of the president. This is not the first time that a strong executive has been attacked and defended, and it will not be the last. Our Constitution, as long as it...
