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The Senate : from White supremacy to governmental gridlock
- Title
- The Senate : from White supremacy to governmental gridlock / Daniel Wirls.
- Author
- Wirls, Daniel, 1960-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- viii, 265 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Constitutionalism and democracy
- Uniform Title
- Constitutionalism and democracy.
- Subjects
- United States
- History
- Race relations > Political aspects
- Democracy > United States
- Representative government and representation > United States
- White supremacy movements > Political aspects > United States > History
- United States > Race relations > Political aspects > History
- United States > Congress > Senate > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-253) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-7745
- ISBN
- 9780813946894
- 0813946891
- 9780813946900
- 0813946905
- LCCN
- 2021014324
- 40030743550
- OCLC
- 1245250851
- Author
- Wirls, Daniel, 1960- author.
- Title
- The Senate : from White supremacy to governmental gridlock / Daniel Wirls.
- Publisher
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Constitutionalism and democracyConstitutionalism and democracy.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-253) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Wirls, Daniel, 1960- Senate. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021 9780813946917 (DLC) 2021014325 (OCoLC)1248598962
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030743550
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-7745