On appreciating Congress : the people's branch / Louis Fisher.
Fisher, Louis.
2010
JK1041 .F57 2010 (Mapit)
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Title On appreciating Congress : the people's branch / Louis Fisher.
Author Fisher, Louis.
ISBN 9781594517952 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1594517959 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781594517945 (alk. paper)
1594517940 (alk. paper)
Imprint Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2010.
Language English
Description x, 182 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number JK1041 .F57 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 328.73
Summary This book explains why Congress is the indispensable institution for safeguarding popular, democratic, and constitutional government. Even though its record over the past two centuries presents a mixed picture, the record of the other two branches is also decidedly mixed. The author has worked for Congress for the past four decades and writes from a perspective that intimately understands its shortcomings while appreciating its strengths. He contends that portraying Congress as so inherently inept that it must be kept subordinate to presidential or judicial power is misguided and uninformed. The Constitution looks to Congress as the first branch because it is the institution through which citizens at the local and state level engage in self-government. Although Presidents claim to be the national representative, they cannot substitute for the knowledge and legitimacy brought by members of Congress. Congress, after all, is the people's branch and this book restores it to its rightful claim.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series On politics.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Popular government
Facing executive power
Interpreting the Constitution
Protecting minority rights
Congress at risk
Safeguarding democracy.

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