What would Madison do? : the Father of the Constitution meets modern American politics / Benjamin Wittes and Pietro S. Nivola, editors.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Wittes, Benjamin, editor.
• Nivola, Pietro S., editor.
• Brookings Institution, issuing body.
• Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Madison, James, 1751-1836--Political and social views.
• Madison, James, 1751-1836.
• Political and social views.
• United States--Politics and government--Philosophy.
• United States.
• Politics and government.
• Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xi, 240 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2015]

Summary:

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 these institutions produce? In What Would Madison Do?, ten prominent scholars explore the contemporary-performance of Madison's constitutional legacy and how much would have surprised him. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Introduction : perspectives on Madison's legacy for contemporary American politics / Benjamin Wittes and Pietro S. Nivola
• Mr. Madison's communion suit : implementation-group liberalism and the case for constitutional reform / John J. DiIulio Jr.
• Constitutional surprises : what James Madison got wrong / William A. Galston
• Overcoming the Great Recession : how Madison's "horse and buggy" managed / Pietro S. Nivola
• Gridlock and the Madisonian constitution / R. Shep Melnick
• Rescuing compromise / Jonathan Rauch
• A model for deliberation or obstruction : Madison's thoughts about the Senate / Jack N. Rakove
• On the mutability of American laws / Martha A. Derthick
• James Madison and the character of American education / Eugene Hickok
• Courting public opinion : James Madison's strategy for resisting federal usurpations / Lynn E. Uzzell
• Madison's vacillations-and modern America's : seeing a founder, an opposition leader, a muddle-through executive, and a wartime President in contemporary American security anxieties / Benjamin Wittes and Ritika Singh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

• 9780815726579
• 0815726570
• 9780815726746
• 0815726740

OCLC:

908375044

Online:

The Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund Home Page