The Roots of American Bureaucracy, 1830-1900This innovative book argues that the mugwump reformers who built early bureaucracies cared less about enhancing government efficiency than about restraining the power of majoritarian political leaders in Congress and the executive branch. |
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... enforce what it enacted . Colonial legislatures met for at most a few weeks each year , and whatever acts they adopted were subject to being overridden by gubernatorial veto or by authorities in England . Thus , legislatures did very ...
... enforce what it enacted . Colonial legislatures met for at most a few weeks each year , and whatever acts they adopted were subject to being overridden by gubernatorial veto or by authorities in England . Thus , legislatures did very ...
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... enforced within the state and enacted legislation obstructing enforcement . Congress responded with the Force Act of 1833 , which empowered federal customs officials and federal judges to override state law . But neither Congress nor ...
... enforced within the state and enacted legislation obstructing enforcement . Congress responded with the Force Act of 1833 , which empowered federal customs officials and federal judges to override state law . But neither Congress nor ...
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... enforce its will if a group of states strongly opposed its policies , but the Union victory had destroyed that uncertainty . After 1865 , everyone knew that , as long as the military obeyed the ... enforce whatever it wanted to enforce.
... enforce its will if a group of states strongly opposed its policies , but the Union victory had destroyed that uncertainty . After 1865 , everyone knew that , as long as the military obeyed the ... enforce whatever it wanted to enforce.
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William E. Nelson. the national government could enforce whatever it wanted to enforce . Only those like the Ku Klux Klan , willing to turn to crime , could resist . Since states no longer had the capacity to check federal power , the ...
William E. Nelson. the national government could enforce whatever it wanted to enforce . Only those like the Ku Klux Klan , willing to turn to crime , could resist . Since states no longer had the capacity to check federal power , the ...
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