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The deconstitutionalization of America : the forgotten frailties of democratic rule / Roger M. Barrus ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2004.Description: ix, 162 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0739108344 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0739108352 (pbk : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.973 22
LOC classification:
  • JK1726 .D44 2004
Contents:
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.

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

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.

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