Minority Rights and Procedural Change in Legislative Politics
by
George Douglas Dion
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The use of filibusters in the U.S. Senate by small numbers of members to prevent legislative action apparently desired by a majority of the members--as evidenced by the battles over civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s--is legendary. Similar situations have existed in other legislative...