The frozen republic : how the Constitution is paralyzing democracy / Daniel Lazare.
1996
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Author
Title
The frozen republic : how the Constitution is paralyzing democracy / Daniel Lazare.
Published
New York : Harcourt Brace, [1996]
Copyright
©1996
Call Number
JK31 .L39 1996
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0151000859
Description
393 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)32626734
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-379) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
1
Conception
11
2
Birth
36
3
Breakthrough in Britain
64
4
Breakdown in America
86
5
Forward to the Past
109
6
Constitutional Orthodoxy Restored
136
7
Postwar America: The New Isolationism
163
8
The Disaster of Watergate
185
9
The Civil Liberties Charade
212
10
The Unraveling Social Fabric
239
11
The Terminal Crisis
263
12
The End Is Nigh (We Hope)
285
Appendix: The Constitution of the United States
311
Notes
339
Bibliography
363
Index
381