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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466886603321

Titolo

What Would Madison Do? [[electronic resource] ] : The Father of the Constitution Meets Modern American Politics / / Benjamin Wittes and Pietro Nivola, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, 2015

ISBN

0-8157-2743-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

973.51092

Soggetti

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Pietro S. Nivola and Benjamin Wittes -- Mr. Madison's Communion Suit : Implementation-Group Liberalism and the Case for Constitutional Reform / John J. DiIulio Jr.  -- Constitution Surprises : What James Madison Got Wrong / William A. Galston -- Overcoming the Great Recession : How Madison's "Horse and Buggy" Managed / Pietro S. Nivola -- Gridlock and Our Madisonian Constitution  / R. Shep Melnick -- Rescuing Compromise / Jonathan Rauch -- A Model for Deliberation or Obstruction : Madison's Thoughts about the Senate / Jack Rakove -- On the Mutability of Our Laws / Martha Derthick -- James Madison and the Character of American Education / Eugene Hickok -- Courting Public Opinion : James Madison's Strategy for Resisting Federal Usurpations / Lynn Uzzell -- Madison's Vacillations-and Ours : Seeing a Founder, an Opposition Leader, a Muddle-Through Executive, and a Wartime President in Ourselves / Benjamin Wittes and Ritika Singh.