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Defending Congress and the Constitution

Author : Louis Fisher
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 070061799X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Defending Congress and the Constitution written by Louis Fisher and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of four decades of research and service on behalf of Congress, Louis Fisher's latest work is a fitting capstone to a remarkable career as scholar and writer and presents his most articulate, passionate, and persuasive defense yet of Congress as an institution. Our nation's leading authority on the separation of powers, Fisher offers a lucid primer on our nation's government and its executive, legislative, and judicial branches while vigorously advocating a robust reassertion of Congress's rightful role within that system. Drawing on a wide range of legislation, Supreme Court rulings, and presidential decisions, Fisher illuminates the contentious contest among the three major branches for power and control of government, presents a panorama of American history, and touches on issues as wide-ranging as federalism, religious freedom, and national security policy. Fisher is especially critical of the stereotypical view of the Supreme Court's decisions as possessing a kind of effectiveness and absolute finality that transcends the efforts and powers of Congress. Indeed, he argues that Congress, as much or more than the judiciary, has had a major positive impact on protecting individual rights in this country, while the judiciary has fallen short in such areas as child labor regulation and compulsory flag salute-or has attempted to settle a constitutional issue only to have it fester for years, breeding anger and resentment, until the political process forces the courts rethink their views. He highlights legislative accomplishments in many areas, often in the face of judicial opposition and obstruction, but also chides Congress for not protecting its key prerogatives over the power of the purse and going to war. In yielding to other branches, Fishers warns, lawmakers fail to represent their constituents and cripple the very system of checks and balances the Framers counted on to limit the destructive capacity of government. His book offers a wealth of forceful insights and provides an important reminder of and guide to how our government should really work.

Congress

Author : Louis Fisher
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 070062211X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Congress written by Louis Fisher and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When asked which branch of government protects citizens’ rights, we tend to think of the Supreme Court—stepping in to defend gay rights, for example, in the recent same-sex marriage case. But as constitutional scholar Louis Fisher reveals in his new book, this would be a mistake—and not just because a decision like the gay marriage ruling can be decided by the opinion of a single justice. Rather, we tend to judge the executive and judicial branches idealistically, while taking a more realistic view of the legislative, with its necessarily messier and more transparent workings. In Congress, Fisher highlights these biases as he measures the record of the three branches in protecting individual rights—and finds that Congress, far more than the president or the Supreme Court, has defended the rights of blacks, women, children, Native Americans, and religious liberty. After reviewing the constitutional principles that apply to all three branches of government, Fisher conducts us through a history of struggles over individual rights, showing how the court has frequently failed at many critical junctures where Congress has acted to protect rights. He identifies changes in the balance of power over time—a post–World War II transformation that has undermined the system of checks and balances the Framers designed to protect individuals in their aspiration for self-government. Without a strong, independent Congress, this book reminds us, our system would operate with two elected officers in the executive branch and none in the judiciary, a form of government best described as elitist—and one no one would deem democratic. In light of the history that unfolds here—and in view of a Congress widely decried as dysfunctional—Fisher proposes reforms that would strengthen not only the legislative branch’s role in protecting individual rights under the Constitution, but also its standing in the democracy it serves.

Defending the Republic

Author : Bruce Frohnen
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 1949822249
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Defending the Republic written by Bruce Frohnen and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, our constitutional order has increasingly come under attack as irredeemably undemocratic, racist, and oppressive. At the same time, it is increasingly obvious that politic practices in the United States have strayed very far from the founders’ designs and become deeply dysfunctional. The time is thus ripe for renewed reflection about the American political tradition. This volume reintroduces readers to the conservative tradition of political and constitutional discourse. It brings together prominent political scientists and legal scholars, all of whom were deeply influenced by the life and work of the eminent constitutional scholar George W. Carey. For over 40 years, Carey strove mightily to explain the nature and requirements of our political tradition. How it fostered meaningful, virtuous self-government, and how our constitutional tradition has been derailed by progressivist ideology. He is perhaps best known for his concept of “constitutional morality,” the understanding that our republican constitutional order can be sustained only by a combination of formal mechanisms (e.g., separation of powers) and unwritten norms (“standards of behavior”) that act to foster deliberation and consensus, as well as keep political actors within the boundaries of their constitutional offices. Contributors, including Francis Canavan, Claes G. Ryn, Paul Edward Gottfried, and Peter Augustine Lawler, discuss and develop Carey’s key insights, applying them to issues from the nature of majoritarian government to the purposes of constitutionalism to the decline of virtue that has accompanied the expansion of power among national and international elites. Each essay provides penetrating analysis of key aspects of our tradition, its inherent purposes, growth, and subsequent derailment, as well as the resources remaining within that tradition for the rebuilding of our constitutional order and a decent common life.

In Defense of the United States Constitution

Author : Robert S. Singh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351117688
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of the United States Constitution written by Robert S. Singh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutional reform is a topic of perennial academic debate, perhaps now more than ever amid sharp polarization in the electorate and government. At once a cogent, new contribution to the scholarly literature and appropriate for American politics and government students, this book mounts a provocative, nonideological defense of the US Constitution, directly engaging proposals for reform and providing a rare systematic argument for continuity: Our politics may be broken but our system is not. Writing from an international perspective with an array of fascinating data, the author draws on theory, law, and history to defend the republican order under political stress and intellectual challenge.

New Federalist Papers

Author : Alan Brinkley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393046199
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book New Federalist Papers written by Alan Brinkley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Federalist Papers" were written in 1787 by three of America's founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay. In this book, three constitutional experts address the threats posed by current challenges to the American constitution.

Authorization of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Authorization of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Defense of the Text

Author : Leslie Friedman Goldstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847676996
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of the Text written by Leslie Friedman Goldstein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...a 'must read' for all students of constitutional law, whatever their academic discipline...this excellent book accomplishes the author's purpose: it forces us to take textualism seriously.'-LEGAL STUDIES FORUM

Constitutional Conflicts Between Congress and the President

Author : Louis Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Conflicts Between Congress and the President written by Louis Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic on the separation of powers, this book dissects the crucial constitutional disputes between the executive and legislative branches from the Constitutional Convention to the present day. New material includes military tribunals and NSA eavesdropping, disputes over executive orders, state secrets privilege, and post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

What is Needed to Defend the Bipartisan Defense of Marriage Act of 1996?

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book What is Needed to Defend the Bipartisan Defense of Marriage Act of 1996? written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Defending Marriage

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Defending Marriage written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Defense of the Constitution: Ending America’s Occupation

Author : Reg. B. Two Stones
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491850450
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of the Constitution: Ending America’s Occupation written by Reg. B. Two Stones and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly controversial book is going to change the political and cultural direction and scene of America in the 21st Century. It will do this by providing Americas Compatriots the tools theyve been searching for to stop Americas Government, Supreme Court Judges, and Politicians from continuing to push this great Republic into the Abyss of a Borderless and lawless nation. By analyzing key words and the US Constitution, this book shows Americas Compatriots how to stop their Government from wresting power from the Republic (a Government who continues to misinterpret and misread key parts of the Constitution). And, unfortunately for the Republic, these misinterpretations are allowing Mexicos (and other foreign nations) criminal citizens and colonizers to invade and occupy US sovereign soil, destroy Americas Western Christian Culture via cultural genocide, and allowing their American born (not-legal) children to claim unlawful citizenship. Unfortunately for Mexicos colonizing invaders and these children, this book proves these lawless colonizers invasion, is not, any kind of immigration, so politicians are breaking Federal law to protect them. Chapter 1: This book tells readers why this book was written; Chapters 2 through 4 are this books heart. It introduces readers to key literary facts, definitions, and analysis of the Constitution, and key sections that prove Americas Government and politicians have betrayed the Republics Citizens. Finally, Chapter 5, and the 3 Appendixes sum up and complete the research. We feel, with these facts, Americans should be ready to save the Country that our Constitutions drafters wrote was blessed and ordained by God. We hope they will be ready to fight these rogue politicians and judges, and to stop the cultural genocide of Americas Western Christian culture, English language, and US sovereignty.

The Constitution and National Security

Author : Howard E. Shuman
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780898759204
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book The Constitution and National Security written by Howard E. Shuman and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founders of our republic were determined to establish a government that protected the rights of the individual within a free society, a system that improved upon European designs. Newly independent, the Americans formed a government under the Articles of Confederation. As a loose confederation of states, however, the growing nation had a weak national voice and little international status. After only ten years under this system, the states recognized the need for more national power and drafted the U. S. Constitution.The goal, again, was to protect the individual's natural rights through the creation of an energetic national government. Thus the U. S. Constitution was written, with compromises, and submitted to the people for their ratification. After vigorous public debate, this document became the fundamental law of the land.The Constitution has endured with few additional amendments for more than two centuries - but not without continuing debate. In this newest contribution to the writings of constitutional scholars, papers address the President's war powers, the role of Congress in foreign policy, and other questions of interpreting the Constitution in the modern era. These current issues have at their core the same fundamental questions that animated debate during the Constitutional Convention in 1787: how best to protect society while guarding the rights of the individual, how best to give sufficient power to the executive while guarding against abuse of power. But even as we debate, we celebrate our Constitution, a document forged of ingrained American beliefs that our republic can be secured and the rights of the individual safeguarded. Vice Admiral J. A. Baldwin, United States Navy President, National Defense University

Defense of Marriage Act

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Defense of Marriage Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Constitution in Congress

Author : David P. Currie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226131146
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Constitution in Congress written by David P. Currie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-05-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most thorough examination to date, David P. Currie analyzes from a legal perspective the work of the first six congresses and of the executive branch during the Federalist era, with a view to its significance for constitutional interpretation. He concludes that the original understanding of the Constitution was forged not so much in the courts as in the legislative and executive branches, an argument of crucial importance for scholars in constitutional law, history, and government. "A joy to read."—Appellate Practive Journal and Update "[A] patient and exemplary analysis of the work of the first six Congresses."—Geoffrey Marshall, Times Literary Supplement

Defending Marriage

Author : United States Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781978060036
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Defending Marriage written by United States Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defending marriage: hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, April 15, 2011.

Defense of Marriage Act

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defense of Marriage Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inherently Governmental Functions and Department of Defense Operations

Author : John R. Luckey
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437918859
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Inherently Governmental Functions and Department of Defense Operations written by John R. Luckey and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ¿inherently governmental function¿ is one that, as a matter of law and policy, must be performed by fed. gov¿t. employees and cannot be contracted out because it is ¿intimately related to the public interest.¿ This report provides background, issues, and options for Congress on defining inherently governmental functions within the context of U.S. Dept. of Defense (DoD) operations. The report focuses upon DoD because of the specific functions that it performs; its prominent role in fed. contracting; its unique workforce, which consists of military and civilian personnel; and recent allegations that DoD, among other agencies, has improperly contracted out inherently governmental functions. Charts and tables.