Congress's Constitution : legislative authority and the separation of powers /
"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,...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Political institutions in the public sphere
- The role of Congress
- The power of the purse
- The personnel power
- Contempt of Congress
- The freedom of speech or debate
- Internal discipline
- Cameral rules
- Conclusion : toward a normative evaluation