How Congress Lost, Part II: The Constitutional Presidency

Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part II: The Constitutional Presidency, American Enterprise Institute, March 2024.

This report by Jay Cost, the second in a series, assesses the weakening of the First Branch and identifies reforms for strengthening our national legislature. (His first report is here.)

Here Cost argues that to appreciate the current diminution of Congress we need to understand that the Founders did not intend the president and executive branch to be powerful—which, today, they are.