Author: Jessica Korn

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1998-03-29

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780691058566

Author Jessica Korn challenges the notion that the 18th-century principles underlying the American separation of powers system are incompatible with the demands of 20th-century governance by questioning the dominant scholarship on the legislative veto. Korn's analysis shows that commentators have exaggerated the legislative veto's significance as a result of their incorrect assumption that the separation of powers was designed solely to check governmental authority.