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Congress and the Constitution : A Study of Responsibility /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2013]
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| Edición: | Reprint 2014 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- PART I. The Problem: Character and Dimensions
- 1. Introduction: Crisis and Discord
- 2. Constitutional Settlements: A Framework for Analysis
- PART II. The Problem in Origins
- 3. Trial and Error, 1789-1801
- 4. The Emerging Theories
- PART III. Congressional Practice in the Nineteenth Century
- 5. The Jeffersonian System: The Anderson Contempt Motion in the House, 1818
- 6. Stress of War: The Oath of Office Act of 1862
- 7. The Marshallian System: The Sherman Act of 1890
- PART IV. Practice in the Modern Congress
- 8. Federalism in Crisis: The Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935
- 9. Separation of Powers in the Administrative State: The Reorganization Act of 1939
- 10. Separation of Powers in the Cold War: The Middle East Resolution of 1957
- 11. Amendment by Default: The Twenty-Second Amendment in Congress, 1947
- 12. Individual Rights and National Insecurity: The Communist Control Act of 1954
- 13. Congress in Dilemma: The Jenner- Butler Bill in the Senate, 1957-1958
- 14. Enter the Executive: The Public Accommodations Title of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
- 15. Congress and the Constitution
- Appendix A, Appendix B, Notes, Table of Court Cases, Index
- Appendix A. Questionnaire to the Members of the Eighty-Sixth Congress: Analysis of Returns
- Appendix B. List of Washington, D.C., Interviews
- Notes
- Table of Court Cases
- Index