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National electoral selection of a president determines not only what policies the winner will advance and reject, but increasingly, which laws — even co-equal constitutional separation of powers mandates — they will choose to enforce or ignore as well.

Recent years have witnessed the ascendancy of an all-powerful imperial presidency that increasingly rules through executive orders and regulatory statute diktats of a growing number of politically beholden non-elected agencies who are largely unaccountable either to public concerns, congressional legislative oversight, or traditional judicial standards of practice.

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