The Senate : from White supremacy to governmental gridlock / Daniel Wirls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wirls, Daniel, 1960- author.

Series:

Constitutionalism and democracy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Congress. Senate.

White supremacy movements--Political aspects--United States--History.

White supremacy movements.

Representative government and representation--United States.

Representative government and representation.

Race relations.

History.

United States.

Democracy--United States.

Democracy.

Race relations--Political aspects.

United States. Congress. Senate--History.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Creating Something Exceptional? Power and Purpose in the Design of the Senate

2. Equal Representation: The Perpetual Great Compromise

3. Equal Representation's Inexorable Clash with Political and Racial Equality

4. The Right of the Living Dead: Staggered Terms, Continuing Bodies, and Constitutional Myths Senators Tell Themselves and America

5. The Filibuster: From Southern Citadel to the Sixty-Vote Senate

6. "Cooling the Coffee": More Myths Senators Tell Themselves, and the Filibuster's Clash with Effective Government and the Constitution

7. The Supermajority Senate Curtailed: Nuclear Options and Mushroom Clouds of Hypocrisy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Wirls, Daniel, 1960- Senate

ISBN:

9780813946894

0813946891

9780813946900

0813946905

OCLC:

1245250851

Publisher Number:

99988321678