I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome

to We The People, a Weekly Show of Constitutional Debate.

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness

and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.

On today's episode, we have a special President's Day debate on the central question,

is the presidency too powerful?

We'll trace the historical evolution of presidential power and

the Constitution from the founding to today and explore some of the current

debates that are trans fixing the nation involving presidential power, and joining us to do that

are two of America's leading scholars of the presidency and the Constitution, friends of the

Constitution Center, and of the We The People Podcast, and I'm so excited to learn from both of them.

Eric Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Arthur

and Esther Kane research chair at the University of Chicago Law School.

He's the author of many books and I want to recommend to you the executive unbound after the

Madisonian Republic to cast light on today's topic.

He co-wrote it with Adrian Vermeul,

and he's also written many other works

on constitutional, international law,

and financial regulation.

Eric, thank you so much for joining.

My pleasure.

And Julian Zellizer is Malcolm Stevenson Forbes,

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