Public Debt Limit Legislation : A Brief History and Some Arguments For and Against It.

Summarizes legislation to limit the public debt, 1917-72. Also surveys arguments for and against a statutory limit on the public debt, focusing on issues of congressional and executive control over Federal expenditures.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1973.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	United States. > Laws, etc. (Statutes of the United States) Executive-legislative relations. Debts, Public. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Description
Summary:	Summarizes legislation to limit the public debt, 1917-72. Also surveys arguments for and against a statutory limit on the public debt, focusing on issues of congressional and executive control over Federal expenditures.
Item Description:	Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed June 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.