Abstract
This chapter applies the Federalist theory to the institutions in the second half of the twentieth century. While there is no denying that the second half of the twentieth century is the era of presidential power, this chapter argues that these decades also brought about the development of the personal Congress and the personal court, as the various elements of powers, organization, and constituency interacted to give each branch a prominent role in this so-called second republic, one that linked them directly to powerful social forces. An era of presidential power did not mean Congress and the Court could not be powerful as well, in related and different ways.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
Notes
Theodore J. Lowi, The Personal President: Power Invested, Promise Unfulfilled (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), xi.
Samuel Kernell, Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership, 4th ed (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2007 ), 94–103.
William G. Howell, Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003 ).
Barbara Kellerman, The President as World Leader ( New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991 ).
Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule, The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 ).
Samuel P. Huntington, “Congressional Responses to the Twentieth Century,” in The Congress and America’s Future, ed. David B. Truman ( Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973 ), 8.
Kenneth A. Shepsle, “Representation and Governance: The Great Legislative Trade-Off,” Political Science Quarterly 103, no. 3 (October 1, 1988 ): 479.
David R. Mayhew, Congress: The Electoral Connection ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974 )
Morris P. Fiorina, Congress, Keystone of the Washington Establishment, 2nd ed. ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989 ).
Among many, Morris Fiorina, “The Decline of Collective Responsibility in American Politics,” Daedalus 109, no. 3 (Summer 1980): 25–45
Kenneth R. Mayer and David T. Canon, The Dysfunctional Congress?: The Individual Roots of an Institutional Dilemma ( Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999 ).
Among many, Roger H. Davidson, “The New Centralization on Capitol Hill,” The Review of Politics 50, no. 3 (1988): 345–64
Steven S Smith, Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate ( Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1989 )
Barbara Sinclair, “Parties and Leadership in the House,” in The Legislative Branch, ed. Paul J. Quirk and Sarah A. Binder ( New York: Oxford University Press, 2005 ), 224–54.
Sean M. Theriault, Party Polarization in Congress ( New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008 ).
Steven S. Smith, The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate ( Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014 ).
Gregory Koger, Filibustering a Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010 ).
Sarah A. Binder, Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the Development of Congress ( New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997 ).
Alfred Hinsey Kelly, Winfred A. Harbison, and Herman Belz, The American Constitution: Its Origins and Development, 6th ed (New York: W.W. Norton, 1983 ), 635.
Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court ( New York: Anchor Books, 2008 ).
Copyright information
© 2015 Daniel Wirls
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Wirls, D. (2015). The Second Republic: The Era of Presidential Power and the Personal Branches. In: The Federalist Papers and Institutional Power in American Political Development. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137499608_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137499608_5
Publisher Name: Palgrave Pivot, New York
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-50690-3
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-49960-8
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political Science CollectionPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)