The Power of Separation: American Constitutionalism and the Myth of the Legislative Veto

by Jessica Korn

Book Overview

Jessica Korn challenges the notion that the eighteenth-century principles underlying the American separation of powers system are incompatible with the demands of twentieth-century governance. She demostrates the continuing relevance of these principles by questioning the dominant scholarship on the legislative veto. As a short-cut through constitutional procedure invented in the 1930s and invalidated by the Supreme Court's Chadha decision in 1983,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069102135X
• ISBN13: 9780691021355
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 10.0"