The deconstitutionalization of America :  the forgotten frailties of democratic rule / 
Roger M. Barrus ... [et al.]. 
 - Lanham, Md. :  Lexington Books,  c2004. 
 - ix, 162 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-158) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0739108344 (cloth : alk. paper) 0739108352 (pbk : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004004699 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Democracy--United States.<br/>Constitutional law--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JK1726  / .D44 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.973