Congress and the Constitution : : A Study of Responsibility / / Donald G. Morgan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Morgan, Donald G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1966
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (490 p.) :; 13 tables

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- PART I. The Problem: Character and Dimensions -- 1. Introduction: Crisis and Discord -- 2. Constitutional Settlements: A Framework for Analysis -- PART II. The Problem in Origins -- 3. Trial and Error, 1789–1801 -- 4. The Emerging Theories -- PART III. Congressional Practice in the Nineteenth Century -- 5. The Jeffersonian System: The Anderson Contempt Motion in the House, 1818 -- 6. Stress of War: The Oath of Office Act of 1862 -- 7. The Marshallian System: The Sherman Act of 1890 -- PART IV. Practice in the Modern Congress -- 8. Federalism in Crisis: The Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935 -- 9. Separation of Powers in the Administrative State: The Reorganization Act of 1939 -- 10. Separation of Powers in the Cold War: The Middle East Resolution of 1957 -- 11. Amendment by Default: The Twenty-Second Amendment in Congress, 1947 -- 12. Individual Rights and National Insecurity: The Communist Control Act of 1954 -- 13. Congress in Dilemma: The Jenner- Butler Bill in the Senate, 1957–1958 -- 14. Enter the Executive: The Public Accommodations Title of the 1964 Civil Rights Act -- 15. Congress and the Constitution -- Appendix A, Appendix B, Notes, Table of Court Cases, Index -- Appendix A. Questionnaire to the Members of the Eighty-Sixth Congress: Analysis of Returns -- Appendix B. List of Washington, D.C., Interviews -- Notes -- Table of Court Cases -- Index