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1 DOI: / The Federalist Papers and Institutional Power in American Political Development

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3 The Federalist Papers and Institutional Power in American Political Development Daniel Wirls DOI: /

4 THE FEDERALIST PAPERS and institutional power in american political development Copyright Daniel Wirls, Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN in the United States a division of St. Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number , of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: PDF ISBN: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. First edition: DOI: /

5 Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments vi vii 1 The Federalist Theory of Institutional Power 1 2 The Separated Institutions Sharing Power: Powers, Organization, and Constituency in The Federalist 18 3 Stability, Change, and Power in the Study of Political Institutions 40 4 Powers, Organization, and Constituency in Early American Political Development 58 5 The Second Republic: The Era of Presidential Power and the Personal Branches 88 6 Conclusion 113 Bibliography 120 Index 129 DOI: / v

6 List of Illustrations Figures 1.1 The Federalist s theory of institutional power Origins and patterns of changes in institutional power Growth in congressional organizational support (House personal and committee staff) Cases filed in the Supreme Court, Economic regulations and civil liberties restrictions overturned by the Supreme Court 106 Tables 1.1 The Federalist s institutional matrix Original and developmental examples of powers, organization, and constituency Major categories of developmental changes in powers, organization, and constituency After FDR: new sources of presidential power 90 vi DOI: /

7 Acknowledgments The idea for this book took shape over the many years I have taught Politics 120A: Congress, the President, and Court in American Political Development at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This course, a political history of the three branches and their interactions, remains somewhat unusual. Most advanced courses in American politics focus on one branch or the other and not so much from a systematically historical or developmental perspective. Like many of my colleagues teaching courses on American political institutions I would include a number of the papers from The Federalist, which served their somewhat obligatory and circumscribed purpose of elucidating the system wrought by the founders, a baseline against which to assess change. Over the years, however, I began to see in the papers greater theoretical and coherence and potential than I had imagined. Instead of my discussing and dropping the papers at the start of the course, their implicit theory that institutional power is determined by powers, organization, and constituency became the conceptual framework for understanding the relationships between and among the institutions from the founding till today. I thank the thousands of students who have taken the course for their forbearance and inspiration. The argument first took shape as a lengthy paper presented at the 2011 Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Many colleagues read the original or subsequent versions, and several provided, above and beyond the call of duty, extensive and astute comments. Some contributed valuable DOI: / vii

8 viii Acknowledgments answers to specific questions. In alphabetical order I thank Thomas Baldino, Richard Bensel, George Conyne, Kent Eaton, Paul Frymer, Scott James, Adam Sheingate, Richard Valelly, and Stephen Wirls. The research for this book, for better or worse, was entirely a product of my efforts. I would like to thank the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media for the production of their Zotero bibliographic software, which has become indispensable in all my scholarly endeavors. This book has its deepest roots in my experiences as a graduate student in the mid-1980s in Cornell University s Department of Government, which was already known for pioneering work in the emerging field of American Political Development, and especially in the words and wisdom of one of its professors. Consequently, I dedicate this work to Benjamin Ginsberg who remains a formidable idea machine, wideranging scholar, and generous colleague and to the other model teachers and scholars then at Cornell, including Theodore Lowi, Martin Shefter, Richard Ned Lebow, and Peter Katzenstein, who had a major influence on my intellectual development. DOI: /