{"product_id":"the-hallowing-of-congress-john-s-pritchett-9798256178192","title":"The Hallowing of Congress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCongress was designed to be the center of American self-government. Today, it often appears more capable of producing conflict than governing through it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hallowing of Congress: How Congress Lost Its Power\u003c\/em\u003e examines how the People's Branch gradually surrendered its constitutional authority, weakened its own procedures, and allowed power to migrate to presidents, courts, federal agencies, party leaders, and private interests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Pritchett traces the decline from an era when Congress routinely debated, amended, and passed consequential legislation to a system increasingly shaped by closed rules, routine obstruction, fundraising demands, manufactured crises, performative hearings, and partisan spectacle. What remains is an institution that retains enormous authority on paper but struggles to exercise it in practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title carries a deliberate double meaning. Congress is still hallowed as a symbol of representative democracy, even as it has been hollowed of much of its governing capacity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is not a partisan indictment. It is a structural diagnosis of an institution that helped create its own weakness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book explores how legislative retreat expanded executive, judicial, and administrative power; why public trust collapsed; and how incentives now reward visibility, outrage, and obstruction more than negotiation or legislative achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet this is not an elegy. It is a map for recovery. The book offers practical reforms involving committee authority, amendment rules, the filibuster, emergency powers, public accountability, campaign pressures, civic participation, and congressional modernization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccessible, urgent, and grounded in constitutional history, \u003cem\u003eThe Hallowing of Congress\u003c\/em\u003e asks whether representative government can survive when its central institution no longer leads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCongress can be repaired-but only if lawmakers and citizens once again expect it to govern.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John S. Pritchett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798256178192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e John S. Pritchett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge Print\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"John S. Pritchett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49148647801087,"sku":"9798256178192","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-hallowing-of-congress-john-s-pritchett-9798256178192","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}