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- catalog abstract ""Tracing the ways in which Congress has changed and adapted over two centuries to remain close and responsive to the people, the author addresses the question of whether some form of direct democracy will supplant representative, deliberative government in the United States. He sets the stage by covering key moments in our democratic history, from the constitutional convention and debate over the Bill of Rights, through debates over slavery petitions and war referendums in the First and Second World Wars - serious questions of democratic process that arose at critical moments in U.S. history."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Congress & the people".
- catalog contributor b11678542.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Tracing the ways in which Congress has changed and adapted over two centuries to remain close and responsive to the people, the author addresses the question of whether some form of direct democracy will supplant representative, deliberative government in the United States. He sets the stage by covering key moments in our democratic history, from the constitutional convention and debate over the Bill of Rights, through debates over slavery petitions and war referendums in the First and Second World Wars - serious questions of democratic process that arose at critical moments in U.S. history."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index.".
- catalog description "Making a C -- The Bill of Rights : Madison gets religion -- The right to petition : The long drive -- Congress and the progressive era -- The Initiative and Referendum Movement -- National referendum proposals and the Isolationist impulse -- The dawning of the sunshine seventies -- A window on Congress : televising floor debates -- The revival of direct democracy proposals -- The road to the Republican Revolution -- The road to governance : revolution, reform, and reality -- Coming full circle : the complete revolution -- Term limits and the scarlet letter -- The electronic Congress -- The curtain falls twice on the House -- The future of deliberative democracy.".
- catalog extent "xi, 308 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0801863074 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "328.73/09 21".
- catalog subject "Deliberative democracy United States.".
- catalog subject "Democracy United States.".
- catalog subject "JK1021 .W64 2000".
- catalog subject "United States. Congress History.".
- catalog subject "United States. Congress Reform History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Making a C -- The Bill of Rights : Madison gets religion -- The right to petition : The long drive -- Congress and the progressive era -- The Initiative and Referendum Movement -- National referendum proposals and the Isolationist impulse -- The dawning of the sunshine seventies -- A window on Congress : televising floor debates -- The revival of direct democracy proposals -- The road to the Republican Revolution -- The road to governance : revolution, reform, and reality -- Coming full circle : the complete revolution -- Term limits and the scarlet letter -- The electronic Congress -- The curtain falls twice on the House -- The future of deliberative democracy.".
- catalog title "Congress & the people".
- catalog title "Congress and the people : deliberative democracy on trial / Donald R. Wolfensberger.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".