Author

Publication

1998 - M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

63,750 words, Guess

Page Count

255 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number98013252
  • Goodreads5371558
  • LibraryThing457063

Classifications

  • DDC324.2734/09/049
  • LCCJK2356 .R23 1998

Description

Nicol Rae's engaging account of the Republican revolutionaries' freshman term in Congress shows how would-be radicals became conservative reformers. He persuasively demonstrates that the precepts set forth by Madison in Federalist 10 and 51 are still in force in the American political system. This book examines the extent to which they were successful in redirecting policy and reforming the institutions of representative government - and the extent to which those same institutions moderated, and even frustrated, efforts to introduce rapid, radical change. Contrasts are drawn both with the Republican freshmen in the Senate and with the power of the President as manifested in the 1995-96 budget battle.

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Other Editions

  • Conservative reformers: the Republican freshmen and the lessons of the 104th CongressM. E. Sharpe1998-01-01

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