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"Tracing the ways in which Congress has changed and adapted over two centuries to remain close and responsive to the people, the author addresses the question of whether some form of direct democracy will supplant representative, deliberative government in the United States.

He sets the stage by covering key moments in our democratic history, from the constitutional convention and debate over the Bill of Rights, through debates over slavery petitions and war referendums in the First and Second World Wars - serious questions of democratic process that arose at critical moments in U.S. history."--BOOK JACKET.

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Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Johns Hoskins University Press
Language
English
Pages
308

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Politics and government, USA, Democracy, Reform, Deliberative democracy, Kongress, United States, United States. Congress, Demokratie, History, United states, congress, history, United states, politics and government
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United States

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2000, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Johns Hoskins University Press
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Table of Contents

Making a constitution
The Bill of Rights : Madison gets religion
The right to petition : The long drive
Congress and the progressive era
The Initiative and Referendum Movement
National referendum proposals and the Isolationist impulse
The dawning of the sunshine seventies
A window on Congress : televising floor debates
The revival of direct democracy proposals
The road to the Republican Revolution
The road to governance : revolution, reform, and reality
Coming full circle : the complete revolution
Term limits and the scarlet letter
The electronic Congress
The curtain falls twice on the House
The future of deliberative democracy.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index.

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Washington, D.C, Baltimore
Other Titles
Congress & the people

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Dewey Decimal Class
328.73/09
Library of Congress
JK1021 .W64 2000, JK1021.W64 2000

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xi, 308 p. ;
Number of pages
308

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OL18284445M
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0801863074
LCCN
99050675
OCLC/WorldCat
42823623
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