Download or read book Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy written by Victoria Nourse and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Nourse argues that lawyers must be educated on the basic procedures that define how Congress operates today. Lawmaking creates winners and losers. If lawyers and judges do not understand this, they may embrace the meanings of those who opposed legislation, turning legislative losers into judicial winners and standing democracy on its head.