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The core of the garrison state is the institutionalized presidency. His power to deploy the armed forces at his discretion has overwhelmed Congress’ power to declare war. The weapon of secrecy has reinforced his claims of royal prerogative over matters affecting national security.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr The Imperial Presidency. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1968 was an influential treatment of the expanded presidency.
John P. MacKenzie, Absolute Power: How the Unitary Executive Theory is Undermining the Constitution. New York: Century Foundation Press, 2008.
Also Jeremy D. Bailey, “The New Unitary Executive and Democratic Theory: The Problem of Alexander Hamilton”, American Political Science Review, Vol. 102 No. 4, November 2008, 453–65.
Seymour Hersh, “The Coming Wars”, The New Yorker, Jan 25 and 31, 2005.
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Geoffrey R. Stone, “Our Untransparant President”, New York Times June 27, 2011, A 13.
Peter W. Rodman, Presidential Command: Power, Leadership and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, 273.
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Esman, M.J. (2013). The Autonomous Commander-in-Chief. In: The Emerging American Garrison State. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137093653_7
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