TY - BOOK ID - 80905816 TI - Reining in the Imperial Presidency : Lessons and Recommendations Relating to the Presidency of George W. Bush AU - Conyers, John AU - United States Congress AU - United States House. PY - 2009 SN - 1626369909 1602399301 PB - New York : Skyhorse Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-. KW - Executive power -- United States -- History -- 21st century. KW - United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009. KW - Executive power KW - Government - U.S. KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Political Institutions & Public Administration - U.S., Executive Branch KW - History KW - Emergency powers KW - Power, Executive KW - Presidents KW - Political science KW - Implied powers (Constitutional law) KW - Separation of powers KW - Powers KW - Bush, George W. KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - Bush, George, KW - Bush, Geo, KW - Bush, Dzhordzh Uoker, KW - Bush, Dzh. U. KW - Bush, Dzh. KW - Bush, KW - Bushi, Qiaozhi W., KW - Bush, Zhorzh, KW - Arbusto, Jorge W., KW - Bush, Xhorxh W., UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80905816 AB - Through transcripts, memos, and analysis, Representative John C. Conyers, Jr. and the House Judiciary Committee reveal how the Bush administration again and again assumed more power than the Constitution allows, and circumvented the traditional checks and balances of our system. From ignoring laws that forbid torturing, to determining that the president himself-not the courts-can decide the reach of the law, to using creative counselors to recast the statutory law or the Constitution itself, the administration's approach to power was, at its core, little more than a restatement of Richard Nixo ER -