Congress and the Constitution : A Study of Responsibility / Donald G. Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Donald G., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Legislation--United States.

Legislation.

United States. Congress--Rules and practice.

Local Subjects:

Constitutional history--United States.

Legislation--United States.

United States. Congress--Rules and practice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Congress and the Constitution".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

PART I. The Problem: Character and Dimensions

1. Introduction: Crisis and Discord

2. Constitutional Settlements: A Framework for Analysis

PART II. The Problem in Origins

3. Trial and Error, 1789-1801

4. The Emerging Theories

PART III. Congressional Practice in the Nineteenth Century

5. The Jeffersonian System: The Anderson Contempt Motion in the House, 1818

6. Stress of War: The Oath of Office Act of 1862

7. The Marshallian System: The Sherman Act of 1890

PART IV. Practice in the Modern Congress

8. Federalism in Crisis: The Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935

9. Separation of Powers in the Administrative State: The Reorganization Act of 1939

10. Separation of Powers in the Cold War: The Middle East Resolution of 1957

11. Amendment by Default: The Twenty-Second Amendment in Congress, 1947

12. Individual Rights and National Insecurity: The Communist Control Act of 1954

13. Congress in Dilemma: The Jenner- Butler Bill in the Senate, 1957-1958

14. Enter the Executive: The Public Accommodations Title of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

15. Congress and the Constitution

Appendix A, Appendix B, Notes, Table of Court Cases, Index

Appendix A. Questionnaire to the Members of the Eighty-Sixth Congress: Analysis of Returns

Appendix B. List of Washington, D.C., Interviews

Notes

Table of Court Cases

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-42882-X

OCLC:

1013947117