Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
House documents
Author: Miscellaneous Documents
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
Annual Report of the Postmaster General
Author: United States. Post Office DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
House Practice
Author: William Holmes BrownPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Judicial and Congressional Salaries
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Our American Government
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Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Committee on House Administration is pleased to present this revised book on our United States Government. This publication continues to be a popular introductory guide for American citizens and those of other countries who seek a greater understanding of our heritage of democracy. The question-and-answer format covers a broad range of topics dealing with the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of our Government as well as the electoral process and the role of political parties.--Foreword.
The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress
Author: Donald C. BaconParliamentary Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: Asher Crosby HindsPublisher:
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Category : Parliamentary practice
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Congressional Government
Author: Woodrow WilsonPublisher:
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Category : Executive power
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Fighting for the Speakership
Author: Jeffery A. JenkinsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691156441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of the speakership a routine matter, is far from straightforward. Fighting for the Speakership provides a comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the U.S. House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today. Jeffery Jenkins and Charles Stewart show how the speakership began as a relatively weak office, and how votes for Speaker prior to the Civil War often favored regional interests over party loyalty. While struggle, contention, and deadlock over House organization were common in the antebellum era, such instability vanished with the outbreak of war, as the majority party became an "organizational cartel" capable of controlling with certainty the selection of the Speaker and other key House officers. This organizational cartel has survived Gilded Age partisan strife, Progressive Era challenge, and conservative coalition politics to guide speakership elections through the present day. Fighting for the Speakership reveals how struggles over House organization prior to the Civil War were among the most consequential turning points in American political history.