The deconstitutionalization of America : the forgotten frailties of democratic rule

Author(s)

• Barrus, Roger Milton

Bibliographic Information

The deconstitutionalization of America : the forgotten frailties of democratic rule

Roger M. Barrus ... [et al.]

Lexington Books, c2004

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-158) and index

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BA68596722
• ISBN:
  • 0739108352
  • 0739108344
• LCCN: 2004004699
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lanham, Md.
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 162 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JK1726
  • DC22 : 320.973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Democracy -- United States
  • LCSH : Constitutional law -- United States
  • LCSH : United States -- Politics and government