March 27, 2018
David Mayhew has an article on the StartingPoints website.
“Congress In the Light of History”.
What should we expect of a separation-of-powers regime interlaced with tough checks and balances? What should we expect of a legislature representing a heterogeneous public that seems to be growing more heterogeneous, not to mention more fractious, all the time? To think about these matters, it may pay to reach for historical perspective.