The Senate : From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock /

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"This accessible book explains the Senate's clash with modern democracy and effective government by exposing this chamber of Congress as a bastion of white supremacy through most of American history"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wirls, Daniel, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Congress. > Senate.
United States. > Congress. > Senate > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
Representative government and representation.
Race relations > Political aspects.
Democracy.
Democracy > United States.
Representative government and representation > United States.
White supremacy movements > Political aspects > United States > History.
United States.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the Senate and American democracy
  • Creating something exceptional? : power and purpose in the design of the Senate
  • Equal representation : the perpetual great compromise
  • Equal representation's inexorable clash with political and racial equality
  • The right of the living dead : staggered terms, continuing bodies, and constitutional myths senators tell themselves and America
  • The filibuster : from southern citadel to the sixty-vote Senate
  • "Cooling the coffee" : more myths senators tell themselves, and the filibuster's clash with effective government and the Constitution
  • The supermajority Senate curtailed : nuclear options and mushroom clouds of hypocrisy
  • Conclusion : constitutional repair and reparations.

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