Congress And The People
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Americans Congress And Democratic Responsiveness
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Author : David R Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2010-07-22
Americans Congress And Democratic Responsiveness written by David R Jones and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-22 with Political Science categories.
The public's satisfaction with Congress determines policy shifts as well as turnovers at election time
Congress And The People S Contest
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Author : Paul Finkelman
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-02
Congress And The People S Contest written by Paul Finkelman and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-02 with History categories.
The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture often struggled to keep up. When war began, Congress was not even in session. By the time it met, the government had mobilized over 100,000 soldiers, battles had been fought, casualties had been taken, some civilians had violently opposed the war effort, and emancipation was under way. This set the stage for Congress to play catch-up for much of the conflict. The result was an ongoing race to pass new laws and set policies. Throughout it all, Congress had to answer to a fractured and demanding public. In addition, Congress, no longer paralyzed by large numbers of Southern slave owners, moved forward on progressive economic and social issues—such as the transcontinental railroad and the land grant college act—which could not previously have been passed. In Congress and the People’s Contest, Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon have assembled some of the nation’s finest scholars of American history and law to evaluate the interactions between Congress and the American people as they navigated a cataclysmic and unprecedented war. Displaying a variety and range of focus that will make the book a classroom must, these essays show how these interactions took place—sometimes successfully, and sometimes less so. Contributors: L. Diane Barnes, Fergus M. Bordewich, Jenny Bourne, Jonathan Earle, Lesley J. Gordon, Mischa Honeck, Chandra Manning, Nikki M. Taylor, and Eric Walther.
Congress And The American People
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Author : William J. Keefe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Congress And The American People written by William J. Keefe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Political Science categories.
Congress As Public Enemy
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Author : John R. Hibbing
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-12-07
Congress As Public Enemy written by John R. Hibbing and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-12-07 with Business & Economics categories.
This timely book describes and explains the American people's alleged hatred of Congress and political institutions.
Congress We The People
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Author : Samuel Kernell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984-01-01
Congress We The People written by Samuel Kernell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-01-01 with categories.
Congress And The People
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Author : Donald R. Wolfensberger
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2000
Congress And The People written by Donald R. Wolfensberger and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Political Science categories.
He sets the stage by covering key moments in our democratic history, from the constitutional convention and debate over the Bill of Rights, through debates over slavery petitions and war referendums in the First and Second World Wars - serious questions of democratic process that arose at critical moments in U.S. history."--BOOK JACKET.
On Appreciating Congress
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Author : Louis Fisher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
On Appreciating Congress written by Louis Fisher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Law categories.
This book explains why Congress is the indispensable institution for safeguarding popular, democratic, and constitutional government. Even though its record over the past two centuries presents a mixed picture, the record of the other two branches is also decidedly mixed. The author has worked for Congress for the past four decades and writes from a perspective that intimately understands its shortcomings while appreciating its strengths. He contends that portraying Congress as so inherently inept that it must be kept subordinate to presidential or judicial power is misguided and uninformed. The Constitution looks to Congress as the first branch because it is the institution through which citizens at the local and state level engage in self-government. Although Presidents claim to be the "national representative," they cannot substitute for the knowledge and legitimacy brought by members of Congress. Congress, after all, is "the people's branch" and this book restores it to its rightful claim.
American Public Opinion Advocacy And Policy In Congress
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Author : Paul Burstein
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-20
American Public Opinion Advocacy And Policy In Congress written by Paul Burstein and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-20 with Political Science categories.
Between one election and the next, members of Congress introduce thousands of bills. What determines which become law? Is it the public? Do we have government 'of the people, by the people, for the people?' Or is it those who have the resources to organize and pressure government who get what they want? In the first study ever of a random sample of policy proposals, Paul Burstein finds that the public can get what it wants - but mainly on the few issues that attract its attention. Does this mean organized interests get what they want? Not necessarily - on most issues there is so little political activity that it hardly matters. Politics may be less of a battle between the public and organized interests than a struggle for attention. American society is so much more complex than it was when the Constitution was written that we may need to reconsider what it means, in fact, to be a democracy.
The Legislative Branch Of The Federal Government
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Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
language : en
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
Release Date : 2009-10-01
The Legislative Branch Of The Federal Government written by Britannica Educational Publishing and has been published by Britannica Educational Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The Legislative Branch, created by Article I of the Constitution, is comprised of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which together form the United States Congress. This book not only studies the powers of the legislative branch and the organization of both houses of Congress, but also examines the legislative process and how a bill ultimately can become a law. This book gives readers a detailed look at how their government really works to both create and pass lasting legislation.
Power Without Responsibility
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Author : David Schoenbrod
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Power Without Responsibility written by David Schoenbrod and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Political Science categories.
This book argues that Congress's process for making law is as corrosive to the nation as unchecked deficit spending. David Schoenbrod shows that Congress and the president, instead of making the laws that govern us, generally give bureaucrats the power to make laws through agency regulations. Our elected "lawmakers" then take credit for proclaiming popular but inconsistent statutory goals and later blame the inevitable burdens and disappointments on the unelected bureaucrats. The 1970 Clean Air Act, for example, gave the Environmental Protection Agency the impossible task of making law that would satisfy both industry and environmentalists. Delegation allows Congress and the president to wield power by pressuring agency lawmakers in private, but shed responsibility by avoiding the need to personally support or oppose the laws, as they must in enacting laws themselves. Schoenbrod draws on his experience as an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council and on studies of how delegation actually works to show that this practice produces a regulatory system so cumbersome that it cannot provide the protection that people need, so large that it needlessly stifles the economy, and so complex that it keeps the voters from knowing whom to hold accountable for the consequences. Contending that delegation is unnecessary and unconstitutional, Schoenbrod has written the first book that shows how, as a practical matter, delegation can be stopped.