The Senate : from white supremacy to governmental gridlock / Daniel Wirls.
Material type: TextSeries: Constitutionalism and democracyPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780813946917
- 0813946913
- United States. Congress. Senate -- History
- États-Unis. Congress. Senate -- Histoire
- United States. Congress. Senate
- White supremacy movements -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- Representative government and representation -- United States
- Democracy -- United States
- United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History
- Mouvements pour la suprématie blanche -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Gouvernement représentatif -- États-Unis
- États-Unis -- Relations raciales -- Aspect politique -- Histoire
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
- Democracy
- Race relations -- Political aspects
- Representative government and representation
- United States
- 328.73/071 23
- JK1161 .W57 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the Senate and American democracy -- Creating something exceptional? : power and purpose in the design of the Senate -- Equal representation : the perpetual great compromise -- Equal representation's inexorable clash with political and racial equality -- The right of the living dead : staggered terms, continuing bodies, and constitutional myths senators tell themselves and America -- The filibuster : from southern citadel to the sixty-vote Senate -- "Cooling the coffee" : more myths senators tell themselves, and the filibuster's clash with effective government and the Constitution -- The supermajority Senate curtailed : nuclear options and mushroom clouds of hypocrisy -- Conclusion : constitutional repair and reparations.
"This accessible book explains the Senate's clash with modern democracy and effective government by exposing this chamber of Congress as a bastion of white supremacy through most of American history"-- Provided by publisher.
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