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blj-483	Flesch, Julian	Reining in the Imperial Presidency: The Case for a Weak Executive	2021	9	.pdf	application/pdf	3740	159	37	While one might expect originalists, as conservatives often claim to be, to believe in a weaker executive, Steven Skowronek notes that [t]he overall effect [of this new view of executive power] is to authorize the President to capitalize on all that the historical development of national power has created while leaving to others the Constitution’s most rudimentary and combative instruments: term limits and quadrennial elections, congressional control of the purse and Senate review of appointments, judicial intervention and the threat of impeachment.163 Conservatives are not against enumerated checks and balances such as impeachment and the advice and consent clause, but they are against unenumerated checks such as general congressional oversight absent impeachment and Congress’s being able to regulate various executive agencies. All this we expect presidents can do.	cache/blj-483.pdf	txt/blj-483.txt