Separation of Powers and Good Government Edited by Bradford P. Wilson and Peter W. Schramm

In Separation of Powers and Good Government, twelve leading scholars examine the manner in which the constitutional principle of separation of powers has shaped the world of American political institutions, and, in turn, how post-Founding doctrines and political practice have affected the way we think about the meaning and consequences of separated powers.

CONTENTS

Preface

Part I: On the Founding

Separation of Powers in the American Constitution
  Harvey C. Mansfield

Separation of Powers, Human Rights, and Constitutional Government: A Franco-American Dialogue at the Time of the Revolution
  Terence Marshall

Executive Power and the American Founding
  Joseph M. Bessette and Gary J. Schmitt

Separation of Powers and Judicial Review
  Bradford P. Wilson

Part II: On Developments After The Founding

Doctrines of Presidential-Congressional Relations
  James W. Ceasar

Congressional Dominance and the Emergence of the Modern Presidency: Was Congress Ever the First Branch of Government?
  David K. Nichols

What Has Happened to the Separation of Powers
  Hugh Heclo

Part III: On Contemporary Practice

The Party Government School of Thought in Action
  William F. Connelly, Jr.

Congress and the Separation of Powers Today: Practice in Search of a Theory
  L. Peter Schultz

Title VII from Lyndon Johnson to George Bush
  Terry Eastland

Was Divided Government Really Such a Big Problem?
  Michael J. Malbin

Index

Contributors