The Yale Law Journal

William P. Marshall

Forum

Warning!: Self-Help and the Presidency

William P. Marshall

It may be hard to look over the current political landscape without concluding that some remedy for the current political dysfunction is in order.1 We live in a time when political polarization is so intense that some members of one party have openly stated that they would do virtually anyth…

Essay

Break Up the Presidency? Governors, State Attorneys General, and Lessons from the Divided Executive

William P. Marshall

115 Yale L.J. 2446 (2006)

Proponents of the unitary executive have contended that its adoption by the framers "swept plural executive forms into the ash bin of history." Virtually every state government, however, has a divided executive in which executive power is apportioned among different executiv…