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Congress's Constitution

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Congress's Constitution

By Josh Chafetz

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About the book

A leading scholar of Congress and the Constitution analyzes Congress's surprisingly potent set of tools in the system of checks and balances. Congress is widely supposed to be the least effective branch of the federal government. But as Josh Chafetz shows in this boldly original analysis, Congress in fact has numerous powerful tools at its disposal in its conflicts with the other branches. These tools include the power of the purse, the contempt power, freedom of speech and debate, and more. Dra...Show more

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9780300197105

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2017

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1

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Congress's Constitution

Format

Hardcover

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