power to legislate
Subtitle: a reference guide to the United States Constitution
By: Richard E. Levy ; foreword by Richard A. Posner.
Series: Reference guides to the United States Constitution -- no. 17
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780313322846
Subjects: United States. -- Congress -- Powers and duties; United States. -- Congress -- Powers and duties -- History; Constitutional law -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: The constitutional transformation of Congress; title: Federal legislative power in the constitutional order; title: The antebellum era; title: The Civil War and Reconstruction; title: Laissez faire constitutionalism and federal legislative power; title: The New Deal crisis and the demise of laissez faire constitutionalism; title: The "new" federalism and the future of federal legislative power; title: The state of federal legislative power; title: Collective action and the federal legislative power; title: Necessary and proper laws; title: Legislative delegation; title: Deliberative powers.