Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers

by Josh Chafetz

Book Overview

A leading scholar of Congress and the Constitution analyzes Congress's surprisingly potent set of tools in the system of checks and balances.

Congress is widely supposed to be the least effective branch of the federal government. But as Josh Chafetz shows in this boldly original analysis, Congress in fact has numerous powerful tools at its disposal in its conflicts with the other branches. These tools include the power of the purse,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300248334
• ISBN13: 9780300248333
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"