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Congress, the constitution, and divided government / / Matthew O. Field



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Autore: Field Matthew O. <1978-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Congress, the constitution, and divided government / / Matthew O. Field Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: El Paso, Tex., : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: vii, 263 p
Disciplina: 342.73/042
Soggetto topico: Legislative power - United States
Separation of powers - United States
Constitutional law - United States
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Congress and the Constitution -- The Civil Rights Act of 1991 -- The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 -- The Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007 -- Deliberation, Affiliation, and our Political System.
Sommario/riassunto: Congressional constitutional deliberation is circumscribed by the political regime and time within which it takes place. By understanding the three cases studied here to have taken place within affiliated time, by which they inhabit and exhibit specific regime constructs, the political regime and political time paradigms are affirmed. Each case demonstrates the importance of regime contestation: the normative debate between competing national governing coalitions. Congress acts as a partisan institution functioning within a political environment encompassing both fundamental "settled" values and secondary "unsettled" values. Its deliberation is symbolic and derivative in nature, acting under an umbrella of judicial supremacy and attempting to influence unsettled values, by which regime shifts are desired. These cases belie the notion of "settled" law and a "settled" regime, yet Congress plays a representational role by acting, and, further still, continues and perpetuates an ongoing dialogue with the other branches and national polity which would not take place otherwise.
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ISBN: 9781593327293
1593327293
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910961406903321
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Serie: Law and society (New York, N.Y.)