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