Congressional abdication on war and spending

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Label

Congressional abdication on war and spending

Statement of responsibility

Louis Fisher

Title variation

Congressional abdication on war & spending

Creator

• Fisher, Louis

Subject

• Separation of powers -- United States
• United States -- Appropriations and expenditures
• Executive power -- United States
• War and emergency powers -- United States
• United States, Congress -- Powers and duties

Language

eng

Summary

"The balance of powers among the branches of government is the defining structure of American democracy. The Founders assumed each branch would jealously guard its own prerogatives to prevent tyrannical power. Were they wrong?" "For thirty years Fisher has observed, informed, and even influenced Congress from his position in the Congressional Research Service. As a scholar, he has studied and published several important books on the separation of powers. Now, for the first time, he not only summarizes the well-informed observations of a distinguished career but also analyzes the reasons for this congressional failure of will and advocates practical ways to redress the balance." "This book will engage students of the governmental process and help them not only to understand the issues at stake in balance-of-power questions but also to learn how to conduct civic discussion and reasoned argument. In the end, Fisher advocates both a return to constitutional principle on the part of lawmakers and, especially, the education of citizens who will insist that Congress protect those principles."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes series in the presidency and leadership studies, no. 7

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

328.73/074

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

JK305

LC item number

.F53 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes series in the presidency and leadership studies

Series volume

no. 7