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The Senate : From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock
Author
Title
The Senate : From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock / Daniel Wirls.
ISBN
9780813946917
9780813946894
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (278 pages).
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Summary
"This accessible book explains the Senate's clash with modern democracy and effective government by exposing this chamber of Congress as a bastion of white supremacy through most of American history"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
Constitutionalism and democracy
Contents
Introduction : the Senate and American democracy
Creating something exceptional? : power and purpose in the design of the Senate
Equal representation : the perpetual great compromise
Equal representation's inexorable clash with political and racial equality
The right of the living dead : staggered terms, continuing bodies, and constitutional myths senators tell themselves and America
The filibuster : from southern citadel to the sixty-vote Senate
"Cooling the coffee" : more myths senators tell themselves, and the filibuster's clash with effective government and the Constitution
The supermajority Senate curtailed : nuclear options and mushroom clouds of hypocrisy
Conclusion : constitutional repair and reparations.
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Genre/Form
History.
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