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The deconstitutionalization of America : the forgotten frailties of democratic rule / Roger M. Barrus ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- United States.
- Constitutional law--United States.
- Constitutional law.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 162 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2004]
- Contents:
- James Madison's constitution of freedom
- Abraham Lincoln's new birth of freedom
- Woodrow Wilson's progressive constitution
- Franklin Roosevelt, the Great Depression and the rise of interest-group government
- Congress : increased power and institutional weakness
- Presidential leadership and the two publics
- The modern judiciary and palliative government : still the "least dangerous branch"?
- Deconstitutionalization and American foreign policy
- National performance review and Madisonian constitutionalism : the persistence of Wilsonian administrative thought
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-158) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0739108344
- 0739108352
- OCLC:
- 54503582
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