Show Notes
Jace Lington talks with AEI’s Philip Wallach about his new book, Why Congress. They discuss what makes Congress central to the American system of representative government and reasons we should look to Congress as the best place to resolve the most contentious issues of our day.
Notes: Why Congress, Oxford University Press, 2023
The Revolution That Wasn’t: Conservatives Against Congress, 1981-2018, Gray Center Working Paper 20-22 Incompletely Theorized Agreements in Constitutional Law, Cass Sunstein, 2007
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