The Power of Separation: American Constitutionalism and the Myth of the Legislative Veto
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Power of Separation: American Constitutionalism and the Myth of the Legislative Veto
By (Author) Jessica Korn
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
9th June 1998
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Constitutional and administrative law: general
Political science and theory
342.73052
Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1997
Physical Properties
Paperback
188
Width 197mm, Height 254mm
28g
Description
This work challenges the notion that the 18th-century principles underlying the American separation of powers system are incompatible with the demands of 20th-century governance 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, the legislative veto has long been presumed to have been a powerful mechanism of congressional oversight. Korn's analysis, however, shows that commentators have exaggerated the legislative veto's significance as a result of their incorrect assumption that the separation of powers was designed solely to check governmental authority.
Reviews
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997
Author Bio
Jessica Korn, a Freedom Forum Fellow (1997-1998), is an Adjunct Professor of Business at Columbia University.
