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Congressional Abdication

by Jim Webb,

In matters of foreign policy, Congress, and especially the Senate, was designed as a hedge against the abuses exhibited by European monarchs who for centuries had whimsically entangled their countries…

Impeachment

by Raoul Berger,

An instrument of regeneration

The Grand Inquest of the Nation

by Raoul Berger,

The President can no more create a constitutional power to withhold information than he can pull himself up by his own bootstraps

Profiles in caution

by Taylor Branch,

Congress getting out of hand

by James Fenimore Cooper,

The Dear Old Constitution

by Charles Austin Beard,

The weakness of the executive power in democracy

by Henry Loomis Nelson,

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