12. Individual Rights and National Insecurity: The Communist Control Act of 1954

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Contents xiii
5. PART I. The Problem: Character and Dimensions
6. 1. Introduction: Crisis and Discord 3
7. 2. Constitutional Settlements: A Framework for Analysis 16
8. PART II. The Problem in Origins
9. 3. Trial and Error, 1789–1801 45
10. 4. The Emerging Theories 71
11. PART III. Congressional Practice in the Nineteenth Century
12. 5. The Jeffersonian System: The Anderson Contempt Motion in the House, 1818 101
13. 6. Stress of War: The Oath of Office Act of 1862 122
14. 7. The Marshallian System: The Sherman Act of 1890 140
15. PART IV. Practice in the Modern Congress
16. 8. Federalism in Crisis: The Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935 163
17. 9. Separation of Powers in the Administrative State: The Reorganization Act of 1939 184
18. 10. Separation of Powers in the Cold War: The Middle East Resolution of 1957 204
19. 11. Amendment by Default: The Twenty-Second Amendment in Congress, 1947 226
20. 12. Individual Rights and National Insecurity: The Communist Control Act of 1954 246
21. 13. Congress in Dilemma: The Jenner- Butler Bill in the Senate, 1957–1958 269
22. 14. Enter the Executive: The Public Accommodations Title of the 1964 Civil Rights Act 292
23. 15. Congress and the Constitution 331
24. Appendix A, Appendix B, Notes, Table of Court Cases, Index
25. Appendix A. Questionnaire to the Members of the Eighty-Sixth Congress: Analysis of Returns 365
26. Appendix B. List of Washington, D.C., Interviews 385
27. Notes 387
28. Table of Court Cases 467
29. Index 471