In this vibrant new book for your legislation course, Abner Mikva and Eric lane draw on their extensive experience at all levels of government to offer a modern analysis of the legislative process. LEGISLATIVE PROCESS blends text, cases, and numberous problems with excerpts from the Congressional Record, committee reports, bills, Constitutional background, and other materials to give students a thorough understanding of the role of legislation in the lawmaking process. The authors introduce good teaching cases to illustrate the judicial role in the process. The problems in the book place students in the legislative and practical setting of a lawyer applying statutes. In a four-part structure, The authors: explore a setting for studying the legislative process, including a brief introduction and careful examination of one statute's progress through the legislative process (followed throughout the book) comment on American legislatures from their organization and functions To The formal enactment process discuss the broader, legitimizing elements of the process, including elections, lobbying, The Congressional Record, And The legislative veto analyze the interpretation of statutes, including application by courts Hypotheticals and case studies throughout the book challenge students to evaluate aspects of the process and consider alternatives. And an in-depth Teacher's Manual details these exercises and provides suggestions for teaching the course. For your upcoming legislation course, give your students a stimulating and highly accessible book by two authors with extensive state and federal legislative experience. Adopt Mikva and Lane's new LEGISLATIVE PROCESS!