The Senate from white supremacy to governmental gridlock
"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"--
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press
2021.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
Constitutionalism and democracy. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46494868*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the Senate and American democracy
- Creating something exceptional? : power and purpose in the design of the Senate
- Equal representation : the perpetual great compromise
- Equal representation's inexorable clash with political and racial equality
- The right of the living dead : staggered terms, continuing bodies, and constitutional myths senators tell themselves and America
- The filibuster : from southern citadel to the sixty-vote Senate
- "Cooling the coffee" : more myths senators tell themselves, and the filibuster's clash with effective government and the Constitution
- The supermajority Senate curtailed : nuclear options and mushroom clouds of hypocrisy
- Conclusion : constitutional repair and reparations.
