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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... Principles and Some First Amendment Problems , " Indiana Law Journal , 47 ( 1971 ) : 1 , for the classic attack from the right . 31 See , e.g. , Larry D. Kramer , The People Themselves : Popular Constitution- alism and Judicial Review ...
... Principles and Some First Amendment Problems , " Indiana Law Journal , 47 ( 1971 ) : 1 , for the classic attack from the right . 31 See , e.g. , Larry D. Kramer , The People Themselves : Popular Constitution- alism and Judicial Review ...
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... principles . I set out in the spirit of a scientific historian to search for evidence to test which interpretation of the radicals was accurate . The evidence raised two problems . One was the failure of the data to show conclusively ...
... principles . I set out in the spirit of a scientific historian to search for evidence to test which interpretation of the radicals was accurate . The evidence raised two problems . One was the failure of the data to show conclusively ...
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