ZINK, HAROLD. Government and Politics in the United States. Pp. xiii, 1091. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1942. $4.00
| DOI | 10.1177/000271624222400159 |
| Published date | 01 November 1942 |
| Date | 01 November 1942 |
| Author | Henry G. Hodges |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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strictions
on
the
formula
are
carefully
dis-
cussed.
Other
chapters
are
devoted
to
Federal
prohibition
of
commerce
for
the
protection
of
destination
states,
Federal
regulation
of
commerce
for
the
protection
of
sending
states,
and
Federal
adoption
of
state
laws
relating
to
commerce.
Each
is
explored
with
careful
detail.
The
major
concluding
suggestion
is
that
the
Court
is
slowly
moving
over
to
a
posi-
tion
in
which,
with
some
limitations,
it
will
permit
Congress
to
determine
the
general
scope
of
Federal
or
state
action
over
com-
merce,
rather
than
relying
solely
on
judicial
construction
of
the
clause.
Apparently
the
writer
thinks
this
is
a
good
idea,
although
his
judgments
are
almost
as
guarded
as
the
judicial
decisions
he has
been
reviewing.
On
the
whole,
the
book
is
a
substantial
addition
to
the
literature
of
constitutional
commentary.
The
reviewer’s
only
major
complaint
is
that
the
political
science
in
the
book
is
submerged
in
a
welter
of
court
cases.
No
philosophy
of
federalism
is
ascertainable,
and
few
considerations
other
than
judicial
decisions
are
introduced.
No
comparative
government
material
is
pre-
sented.
No
clear-cut
method
of
analysis
of
institutional
development
is
employed.
This
is,
however,
a
failing
which
is
general
in
writings
by
political
scientists
who
have
taken
to
the
law.
We
can
hope
in
the
case
of
Dr.
Kallenbach
that
it
is
a
shortcoming
which
has
resulted
from
lack
of
time
and
not
from
lack
of
inclination
to
explore
the
larger
problems
of
federalism.
GEORGE
C.
S.
BENSON
Washington,
D.
C.
DENNISON,
ELEANOR E.
The
Senate
For-
eign
Relations
Committee.
Pp.
xviii,
201.
Stanford
University:
Stanford
Uni-
versity
Press,
1942.
$2.50.
This
incomplete
study,
relying
heavily
on
secondary
works,
is
limited
by
printed
sources,
like
the
Congressional
Record
and
the
various
congressional
documents.
There
was
no
consultation
of
archival
material
in
Washington,
not
even
of
the
papers
of
the
Senate
Committee
on
Foreign
Relations,
no
searching
of
the
personal
papers
of
significant
chairmen
of
the
Committee,
like
Senators
King,
Lodge,
and
Borah.
After
some
survey
of
the
background
and
the
structure
of the
Committee,
with
a
useful
analysis
of
sectional influences
on
its
mem-
bership,
the
author
examines
the
action
of
the
Committee
in
regard
to
three
con-
spicuous
questions
of
foreign
relations:
the
Clayton-Bulwer
Treaty,
the
Cuban
Ques-
tion,
and
the
Court
of
International
Justice.
She
herself
states
that
these
selections
are
not
average
cases,
but
are
taken
from
the
few
that
have
attracted
special
attention.
She
is
not
able
to
draw
secure
conclusions
from
these
cases,
unless
it
be
that
the
chair-
man
of
the
Committee
can
be
a
man
of
great
influence
on
foreign
policy,
and
that
members
of
the
Committee
are
seldom
previously
trained
to
deal
competently
with
the
subjects
that
come
up
before
it.
The
book
is
padded
out
with
eight
pages
of
portraits
and
photographs
of
successive
chairmen
and
thirty-three
pages
of
a
list
of
personnel
of
the
Committee
by
congres-
sional
session.
An
adequate
monograph
on
the
Commit-
tee
requires
far
more
work
than
this
partial
study,
which
should
not
have
been
printed
thus
prematurely.
It
compares
most
un-
favorably
with
Albert
C.
F.
Westphal’s
recent
and
much
more
thorough
work
on
the
less
important
House
Committee
on
Foreign
Affairs.
Incidentally,
the
title
is
a
misnomer
for
the
Committee
on
Foreign
Relations,
United
States
Senate.
SAMUEL
FLAGG
BEMIS
Yale
University
ZINK,
HAROLD.
Government
and
Politics
in
the
United
States.
Pp.
xiii,
1091.
New
York:
The
Macmillan
Co.,
1942.
$4.00.
As
Professor
Zink
points
out
in
the
first
sentence
of
his
preface,
the
author
of
a
new
text
on
American
government
is
&dquo;in-
evitably
placed
in
a
defensive
position&dquo;
because
of
the
many
good
books
in
the
field.
The
reviewer
feels
that
the
author’s
many
years’
teaching
experience
and
clear
readable
style
have
produced
a
result
suffi-
ciently
different
from
existing
texts,
includ-
ing
an
improved
approach,
to
make
his
ef-
fort
a
distinct
contribution.
The
book
is
divided
into
six
sections.
The
first,
&dquo;The
Nature
of
the
Government
of
the
United
States,&dquo;
deals
with
the
under-
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