The Senate institution.
By: Edited by Nathaniel Stone Preston.
Series: New perspectives in political science, 18
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: United States. Congress. Senate
Notes: Essays revised from lectures originally delivered during a course entitled The Senate institution, given at the American University, during spring 1965.
Table of contents: title: A tribute to the Congress, by H. H. Humphrey.; title: The Senate as envisioned by the framers of the Constitution, by W. L. Morse.; title: The role of executive leadership, by G. W. McGee.; title: The role of the Senate in determining foreign policy, by J. J. Sparkman.; title: Senatorial campaigning, by T. B. Morton.; title: The relationship of a Senator to his constituency, by H. Scott.; title: The Senate and its leadership, by M. J. Mansfield.; title: The role of the Senate minority, by T. H. Kuchel.; title: The debate on Senate rules change, 1959, from Congressional Record, Jan. 8-12, 1959, p. S63-S476.; title: Committees and subcommittees in the Senate, by E. S. Muskie.; title: The role of committee investigations, by K. E. Mundt.; title: Congressional ethics, by E. J. McCarthy.; title: The Dodd censure resolution debate, from Congressional Record, June 13-23, 1967, p. S8079-S8723.; title: The case for Congressional reform, by J. S. Clark.; title: The case against reform: a nobler purpose than political efficiency, by S. J. Ervin, Jr.