Description
Book SynopsisExplores the underlying tension between congressional authority and the executive prerogative. Especially today, with such tension very much in evidence, it becomes all the more important to understand how and why the Constitution actually appears to encourage it.
Table of Contents
- Editor’s Preface
- Preface
- Part I. The History of a New Federal Tribunal
- 1. the Long Road to the Court of Claims
- 2. Approaching the Gates of the Court: The Six Tribes and Congress until 1927
- 3. Still Waiting at the Gates of the Court, 1926-1928
- Part II. The Pocket Veto: Challengers and Challenges
- 4. Reacting to the Pocket Veto, 1927-1928
- 5. The Supreme Court Agrees to Read and Listen, 1928-1929
- 6. The Pocket Veto and the Supreme Court, 1929-1938
- Part III. Beyond the Pocket Veto Case
- 7. Digging Deeper into the Pocket Veto Cases, 1970-1987
- Conclusion
- Chronology
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
