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What Would Madison Do? : The Father of the Constitution Meets Modern American Politics /

What would the father of the Constitution think of contemporary developments in American politics and public policy? Constitutional scholars have long debated whether the American political system, which was so influenced by the thinking of James Madison, has in fact grown outmoded. But if Madison h...

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Autres auteurs: Nivola, Pietro S. (Éditeur intellectuel), Wittes, Benjamin (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:What would the father of the Constitution think of contemporary developments in American politics and public policy? Constitutional scholars have long debated whether the American political system, which was so influenced by the thinking of James Madison, has in fact grown outmoded. But if Madison himself could peer at the present, what would he think of the state of key political institutions that he helped originate and the government policies that they produce? In What Would Madison Do?, ten prominent scholars explore the contemporary performance of Madison's constitutional legacy and how m.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9780815727439