What would Madison do? the Father of the Constitution meets modern American politics / Benjamin Wittes and Pietro S. Nivola, editors.

Other author Wittes, Benjamin.
Other author Nivola, Pietro S.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2015.
Descriptionxi, 240 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents Introduction / Pietro S. Nivola and Benjamin Wittes -- Mr. Madison's Communion Suit : Implementation-Group Liberalism and the Case for Constitutional Reform / John J. DiIulio Jr. -- Constitution Surprises : What James Madison Got Wrong / William A. Galston -- Overcoming the Great Recession : How Madison's "Horse and Buggy" Managed / Pietro S. Nivola -- Gridlock and Our Madisonian Constitution / R. Shep Melnick -- Rescuing Compromise / Jonathan Rauch -- A Model for Deliberation or Obstruction : Madison's Thoughts about the Senate / Jack Rakove -- On the Mutability of Our Laws / Martha Derthick -- James Madison and the Character of American Education / Eugene Hickok -- Courting Public Opinion : James Madison's Strategy for Resisting Federal Usurpations / Lynn Uzzell -- Madison's Vacillations-and Ours : Seeing a Founder, an Opposition Leader, a Muddle-Through Executive, and a Wartime President in Ourselves / Benjamin Wittes and Ritika Singh.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015019158
ISBN9780815726579 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780815726746 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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