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Abraham, Henry J. Justices, Presidents, and Senators. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.

Baum, Lawrence. The Supreme Court. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1998.

Beard, Charles A. American Government and Politics. 10th ed. New York: Macmillan Co., 1949.

Beard, Charles A. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1935.

Biskupic, Joan, and Elder Witt. The Supreme Court & the Powers of the American Government. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1997.

Biskupic, Joan, and Elder Witt. The Supreme Court at Work. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1997.

Brannen, Daniel E., and Richard Clay Hanes. Supreme Court Drama: Cases That Changed America. Detroit: UXL, 2001.

Burnham, James. Congress and the American Tradition. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003.

Carp, Robert A., and Ronald Stidham. The Federal Courts. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1991.

Charleton, James H., Robert G. Ferris, and Mary C. Ryan, eds. Framers of the Constitution. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1976.

Choper, Jesse H., ed. The Supreme Court and Its Justices. 2nd ed. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2001.

Clark, J. C. D. The Language of Liberty, 1660–1832. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Congressional Quarterly Inc. Guide to the Congress of the United States. 1st ed. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Service, 1971.

Congressional Quarterly Inc. Powers of the Presidency. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1997.

Cronin, Thomas E. Inventing the American Presidency. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989.

DiClerico, Robert E. The American President. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.

Dougherty, J. Hampden. Power of Federal Judiciary over Legislation. New York: Putnam's Sons, 1912. Reprint, Clark, NJ: Lawbook Exchange, 2004.

Fisher, Louis. Constitutional Conflicts between Congress and the President. 3rd ed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991.

Fisher, Louis. The Politics of Shared Power: Congress and the Executive. 4th ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.

Goebel, Julius, Jr. Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801. Vol. I. New York: Macmillan, 1971.

Green, Mark. Who Runs Congress? 3rd ed. New York: The Viking Press, 1979.

Hart, John. The Presidential Branch. 2nd ed. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers, 1995.

Irons, Peter. A People's History of the Supreme Court. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.

Janda, Kenneth, Jeffrey M. Berry, and Jerry Goldman. The Challenge of Democracy. 5th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.

Kelly, Alfred H., and Winfred A. Harbison. The American Constitution: Its Origins and Development. 5th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1976.

Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner. The Founders' Constitution. 5 vols. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1987.

Lazarus, Edward P. Closed Chambers. New York: Times Books, 1998.

Levy, Leonard W. Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution. New York: Macmillan, 1988.

Lintcott, Andrew. The Constitution of the Roman Republic. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.

Loomis, Burdett A. The Contemporary Congress. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

MacNeil, Neil. Forge of Democracy: The House of Representatives. New York: David MacKay Co., 1963.

McClenaghan, William A. Magruder's American Government 2003. Needham, MA: Prentice Hall School Group, 2002.

McDonald, Forrest. The American Presidency. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.

Milkis, Sidney M., and Michael Nelson. The American Presidency: Origins & Development. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1999.

Millar, Fergus. The Roman Republic in Political Thought. Hanover and London: Brandeis University Press and Historical Society of Israel, 2002.

Moran, Thomas Francis. The Rise and Development of the Bicameral System in America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1895.

Nelson, Michael, ed. The Evolving Presidency. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1999.

Nelson, Michael, ed. The Presidency and the Political System. 7th ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2003.

Parenti, Michael. Democracy for the Few. 6th ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Pole, J. R. Political Representation in England and the Origins of the American Republic. London: Macmillan, 1966.

Ripley, Randall B. Party Leaders in the House of Representatives. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1967.

Roelofs, H. Mark. The Poverty of American Politics. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.

Rozell, Mark J. Executive Privilege. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.

Rozell, Mark J., William D. Pederson, and Frank J. Williams. George Washington and the Origins of the American Presidency. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.

Schwartz, Bernard. A History of the Supreme Court. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Shelley, Mack C., II. American Government and Politics Today. 2004–2005 ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2003.

Surrency, Erwin C. History of the Federal Courts. 2nd ed. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 2002.

Volkomer, Walter E. American Government. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Wasby, Stephen L. The Supreme Court in the Federal Judicial System. 2nd ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984.

Wheeler, Russell R., and Cynthia Harrison. Creating the Federal Judicial System. Washington, DC: Federal Judicial Center, 1994.

Wilson, Woodrow. Congressional Government. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1885. Reprint, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002.

Wolfensberger, Donald R. Congress and the People. Washington, DC, and Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Woll, Peter. American Government: Readings and Cases. 15th ed. New York: Longman, 2003.

Young, Roland. American Law and Politics: The Creation of Public Order. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

CD-ROMs

21st Century Complete Guide to U.S. Courts. Progressive Management, 2003.

Web Sites

Federal Judicial Center. http://www.fjc.gov/ (accessed on March 31, 2005).

Federal Judiciary. http://www.uscourts.gov (accessed on February 18, 2005).

Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov (accessed on March 15, 2005).

O'Hara, James B. "Court History Quizzes." Supreme Court Historical Society. http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_history/02_f.html (accessed on March 30, 2005).

Supreme Court of the United States. http://www.supremecourtus.gov (accessed on February 18, 2005).

United States Department of Justice. http://www.usdoj.gov/ (accessed on February 12, 2005).

United States House of Representatives. http://www.house.gov (accessed on March 14, 2005).

United States Senate. http://www.senate.gov (accessed on March 14, 2005).

U.S. Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov (accessed on February 16, 2005).

U.S. Courts: The Federal Judiciary. http://www.uscourts.gov (accessed on March 23, 2005).

U.S. Term Limits. http://www.termlimits.org/ (accessed on March 11, 2005).

The White House. http://www.whitehouse.gov (accessed on February 16, 2005).