Congress-Bashing For Beginners By Nelson W. Polsby

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In the late 1940’s and the early 1960’s books written by liberal Democrats and aggravated members of the articulate tribe sought solutions to find structural reform in the constitutional separation of powers. However, in Congress-Bashing for Beginners by Nelson W. Polsby he says instead of reforms weakening Congress, what happened is we got a considerably strengthened presidency. The strength of the presidency was mostly a product of World War II and not particularly the results of liberal complaints. Events during World War II caused everything to change. Congress created a defense department and the NSC and the CIA, two presidential agencies that enhanced the underlying complications of national security affairs. Although it took time for

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