Description: The nation's most important and prolific constitutional scholar presents an articulate, passionate, and persuasive defense of Congress as an institution. The culmination of four decades of research and service, this book provides a lucid primer on our nation's government while advocating a robust reassertion of Congress's rightful role.
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"For forty years Louis Fisher has been a national treasure. His splendid new volume provides a fitting capstone to an extraordinary career."--Thomas Mann, coauthor of The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track
"Lou Fisher is the master of the institutional interests of the U.S. Congress. . . . This book should be read by everyone concerned about the performance of American democracy."--Steven S. Smith, author of The American Congress
"A prodigious and grand work by the nation's most important, prolific, and lucid constitutional scholar."--Robert J. Spitzer, author of Saving the Constitution from Lawyers