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Chapter 11. The beleaguered filibuster of the US Senate

  • Christopher Ketcham
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Controversies in the Contemporary World
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Abstract

This chapter explores the debate about the debate and two procedures that US senators use to extend and close the debate: filibuster and cloture. I first outline the history of the filibuster and cloture. Within the debate about the debate are two controversies: the senate as an exclusive deliberative body, and the meaning of majority rule. I show how the exclusive deliberative body theory envisioned by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington has devolved to where the Senate has become more like the House. Majority rule, because of changes made to cloture, has become more like what the framers of the Constitution likely envisioned: simple majority rule.

Abstract

This chapter explores the debate about the debate and two procedures that US senators use to extend and close the debate: filibuster and cloture. I first outline the history of the filibuster and cloture. Within the debate about the debate are two controversies: the senate as an exclusive deliberative body, and the meaning of majority rule. I show how the exclusive deliberative body theory envisioned by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington has devolved to where the Senate has become more like the House. Majority rule, because of changes made to cloture, has become more like what the framers of the Constitution likely envisioned: simple majority rule.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Foreword xi
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Section 1. Philosophies and controversies
  6. Chapter 1. Leibniz beyond Leibniz 7
  7. Chapter 2. Locke’s and Leibniz’s virtual debate over Of our knowledge of the existence of God 29
  8. Chapter 3. Locke and Leibniz on matter and solidity 49
  9. Chapter 4. How should we think about a trans-cultural hermeneutics? 69
  10. Chapter 5. Virtues and vices and parts and wholes 85
  11. Chapter 6. Trajectories and challenges of translating traditional Chinese medicine 105
  12. Section 2. Dialogue and controversies
  13. Chapter 7. Dialogue in philosophical practices 127
  14. Chapter 8. The absence of God 145
  15. Chapter 9. Listening to the other 161
  16. Chapter 10. Controversies on hypercomplexity and on education in the hypertechnological era 179
  17. Chapter 11. The beleaguered filibuster of the US Senate 201
  18. Chapter 12. The ruins of the political 217
  19. Chapter 13. Coordination games and disagreement 241
  20. Chapter 14. How to solve controversies in scenarios of legal pluralism 261
  21. Chapter 15. The “water memory affair” 279
  22. About the contributors 297
  23. Subject index 303
https://doi.org/10.1075/cvs.15.12ket

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Foreword xi
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Section 1. Philosophies and controversies
  6. Chapter 1. Leibniz beyond Leibniz 7
  7. Chapter 2. Locke’s and Leibniz’s virtual debate over Of our knowledge of the existence of God 29
  8. Chapter 3. Locke and Leibniz on matter and solidity 49
  9. Chapter 4. How should we think about a trans-cultural hermeneutics? 69
  10. Chapter 5. Virtues and vices and parts and wholes 85
  11. Chapter 6. Trajectories and challenges of translating traditional Chinese medicine 105
  12. Section 2. Dialogue and controversies
  13. Chapter 7. Dialogue in philosophical practices 127
  14. Chapter 8. The absence of God 145
  15. Chapter 9. Listening to the other 161
  16. Chapter 10. Controversies on hypercomplexity and on education in the hypertechnological era 179
  17. Chapter 11. The beleaguered filibuster of the US Senate 201
  18. Chapter 12. The ruins of the political 217
  19. Chapter 13. Coordination games and disagreement 241
  20. Chapter 14. How to solve controversies in scenarios of legal pluralism 261
  21. Chapter 15. The “water memory affair” 279
  22. About the contributors 297
  23. Subject index 303
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