To Run a Constitution The Legitimacy of the Administrative State

Name: To Run a Constitution The Legitimacy of the Administrative State
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ISBN: 9780700603015

ISBN-10: 0700603018

ISBN-13: 9780700603015

Edition: 1986

Authors: John A. Rohr

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In 1887, the centennial year of the American Constitution, Woodrow Wilson wrote that "it is getting to be harder to run a constitution than to fram one." The context for Wilson's comment was an essay calling for sound principles of administration that would enable government officials to "run" a constitution well. Wilson and his fellow civil-service reformers had a profound influence on the development of American administrative institutions. Unfortunately, the reformers paid more attention to the exigencies of running a constitution than to the Constitution itself. They and their intellectual progeny developed a theory of administration that was at odds with the theory of the Constitution.…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 5/1/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English