Faktyczny status ustrojowy Kongresu USA na tle literatury amerykańskiej

• Authors: Ryszard M. Małajny

Title variants

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THE ACTUAL CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF THE U.S. CONGRESS IN THE CONTEXT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is divided into six parts. In Part I, the author gives introductory notes describing the powers of US Congress. In the subsequent sections, he tries to find out what is the actual status of that body in the system of government. He provides a very positive evaluation of that status in Part II, and presents negative arguments thereon in Part III. In Part IV he analyzes - as he himself defines them - the seven deadly sins of Congress: the growing “balkanization” of the Congress; overexposed position of its committees and subcommittees in the political system; its decades-long weak party discipline and lesser legal and political status of the parliamentary party factions; different Achilles heels of Congressmen; doubtful representativeness of Congress, the excessive complexity of the existing procedures that are used by a temporary minority to delay, block or undermine the necessary legislative proposals, and little, as it seems to be, attention of Congress to its image in society. Part V deals with redefinition of the functions of Congress. The author agrees with those researchers who believe that it was many years ago that Congress ceased to be able to effectively and independently perform its legislative function, as well as that its main role is not law-making, but a specifically understood oversight. Part VI ncludes the conclusions.

Keywords

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Constitutional Status of the U; S; Congress; redefinition of the functions of Congress; legislative function; law-making

• Publisher: Kancelaria Sejmu / Chancellery of the Sejm
• Journal: Przegląd Sejmowy
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 6(113)
• Pages: 49-69

Contributors

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Ryszard M. Małajny

• Uniwersytet Śląski