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William Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor of American Politics at the University of Chicago and the author, most recently, of The Wartime President: Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat.
The Founding Fathers didn't design Congress to solve national problems in the national interest.Â
If we want to check presidential power—and check it we must—then it is essential that we resist claims to executive secrecy.
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