Linda Greenhouse reviews The Oath too The Office in the New York Review of Books, alongside Josh Matz too Lawrence Tribe's To End a Presidency, as good equally Cass Sunstein's Impeachment. Here is an excerpt:
Maybe, later on to a greater extent than than 2 years of President Trump, what nosotros ask to a greater extent than than anything is a collective reminder of what nosotros accept a correct to await from the occupant of the White House—how a president should bear too what the presidency should be. In that vein, I terminate this essay past times recommending a mass that has received besides piffling attending since its publication final year. It’s non an impeachment book. In fact, it’s a how-to-avoid-impeachment mass past times a political scientist at Brown University, Corey Brettschneider.
He has written The Oath too the Office: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents as an extended memo to anyone who powerfulness live on considering a run for the White House. It has chapters most the powers the Constitution bestows on the president equally good equally on the constraints it imposes. Where accept presidents gone wrong, too where accept they lived upwardly to the Constitution’s ideals? Brettschneider hands his hypothetical candidate a challenge that should beak to all of us. “As president,” he writes,
"you volition live on constrained past times these legal dynamics of the Constitution. But far to a greater extent than integral to your presidency is something else: the Constitution’s political morality. By this, I hateful the values of liberty too equality that inform the document beyond its judicially enforceable requirements. We tin tell whether presidents comprehend the Constitution’s values non merely past times their executive orders or official appointments, but past times how they beak to the American people. No courtroom tin tell you lot what to say. But you lot however must live on guided past times the Constitution inwards this crucial endeavor. As president, you lot should beak for all of us—and more, you lot should beak for what our position down stands for, too aspires to be."
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