TY - BOOK AU - Barrus,Roger Milton TI - The deconstitutionalization of America: the forgotten frailties of democratic rule SN - 0739108344 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - JK1726 .D44 2004 U1 - 320.973 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Lexington Books KW - Democracy KW - United States KW - Constitutional law KW - Politics and government N1 - 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 ER -