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The Power of Separation: American Constitutionalism and the Myth of the Legislative Veto. (book reviews)

American Political Science Review,  December, 1997  by Shipan, Charles R.

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Charles R. Shipan, University of Iowa

In the 1983 case of INS v. Chadha, the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional those legislative vetoes that violate the presentment and bicameralism clauses of the Constitution. Since then, a strong scholarly consensus has emerged regarding the demise of the extraconstitutional legislative veto. This consensus holds that the legislative veto was one of the most important ways in which Congress was able to respond to bureaucratic excesses and that the Court, by striking it down, deprived Congress of the ability to shape agency policymaking. ...

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