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If you watched last week, you might have noticed that Democrats spent a lot of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearing browbeating him over his apparent belief in something called the “unitary executive.”

So what is that? Although there do exist some ridiculous versions of “unitary executive theory,” the correctly understood idea of the unitary executive is the only possible and reasonable interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

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