The power to legislate : a reference guide to the United States Constitution / Richard E. Levy ; foreword by Richard A. Posner.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levy, Richard E., 1956-
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
Series:Reference guides to the United States Constitution ; no. 17.
Subjects:
United States. > Congress > Powers and duties.
United States. > Congress > Powers and duties > History.
Constitutional law > United States.
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Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xiv, 220 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The constitutional transformation of Congress
  • Federal legislative power in the constitutional order
  • The antebellum era
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Laissez faire constitutionalism and federal legislative power
  • The New Deal crisis and the demise of laissez faire constitutionalism
  • The "new" federalism and the future of federal legislative power
  • The state of federal legislative power
  • Collective action and the federal legislative power
  • Necessary and proper laws
  • Legislative delegation
  • Deliberative powers.