The Senate : from white supremacy to governmental gridlock /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wirls, Daniel, 1960- (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
Series:	Constitutionalism and democracy.
Subjects:	United States. > Congress. > Senate > History. White supremacy movements > Political aspects > United States > History. Representative government and representation > United States. Democracy > United States. United States > Race relations > Political aspects > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.