Author: Robert Young HaynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foot's resolution, 1829
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Speeches of Messrs. Hayne and Webster in the United States Senate on the Resolution of Mr. Foot, January 1830
Author: Robert Young HaynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foot's resolution, 1829
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Speeches of Messrs. Hayne and Webster in the United States Senate on the Resolution of Mr. Foot, January, 1830
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Speeches of Messrs. Hayne and Webster in the United States Senate on the Resolution of Mr. Foot, January 1830
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Speeches of Messrs. H. and Webster in the United States Senate, on the Resolution of Mr. Foot, January, 1830
Author: Robert Young HAYNEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Webster and Hayne's Speeches in the United States Senate, on Mr. Foot's Resolution of January 1830
Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Speeches in the U.S. Senate, on Mr. Foot's Resolution of Jan., 1830
Author: Robert Young HaynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
Author: Adam JentlesonPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631497782
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
With a new epilogue on filibuster battles under the Biden administration THE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTER "A truly excellent book… blistering and persuasive.” —Ezra Klein, New York Times An insider’s account of how politicians representing a radical white minority of Americans have used “the world’s greatest deliberative body” to hijack our democracy. Our democracy is under assault from homegrown authoritarians, with most observers blaming Donald Trump and the Republican Party that submitted to him. Yet as Adam Jentleson shows, the problem not only goes back to the nineteenth century, but is less about the presidency than it is about our nation’s most venerated institution: the United States Senate. A revelatory history of minority rule in America as expressed through the Senate filibuster, Kill Switch shows that white conservatives have long relied on the filibuster—which is not featured in the Constitution, and which, as Jentleson demonstrates, the Framers would have opposed—to shut down attempts to create a multiracial democracy. Featuring a new epilogue on filibuster battles under the Biden administration, Kill Switch will remain an essential warning about the costs of empowering this nation’s right-wing minority. • “Jentleson understands the inner workings of the institution, down to the most granular details, showing precisely how arcane procedural rules can be leveraged to dramatic effect.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times • “Careful and thorough and exacting.” —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books • “[An] excellent, surprising new book.” —Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker
