Author: United States. Congress. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Compilation of Senate Election Cases from 1789 to 1885
Author: United States. Congress. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Compilation of Senate Election Cases from 1789 to 1885
Author: George S. TaftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Compilation of Senate Election Cases from 1789 to 1903
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Privileges and ElectionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Senate Election, Expulsion and Censure Cases from 1789 to 1960
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Senate of the United States
Author: N. O. KuraPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781594545252
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress, created in Article I, Section 1 of the US Constitution. The Senate has 100 members, who serve for 6-year terms with one-third of the seats up for re-election every two years. Every state has two Senators. This book sheds light on the structure and operating procedures of this dynamic body.
The United States Senate
Author: Alexander P. KesslerPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781594548956
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Created in 1787, the United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. In the Senate, each state is equally represented by two members, regardless of population; as a result, the total membership of the body is 100. Senators serve for six-year terms that are staggered so elections are held for approximately one-third of the seats (a "class") every second year. The Vice President of the United States is the presiding officer of the Senate but is not a senator and does not vote except to break ties. The Senate is regarded as a more deliberative body than the House of Representatives; the Senate is smaller and its members serve longer terms, allowing for a more collegial and less partisan atmosphere that is somewhat more insulated from public opinion than the House. The Senate has several exclusive powers enumerated in the Constitution not granted to the House; most significantly, the President must ratify treaties and make important appointments "with the Advice and Consent of the Senate" (Article I). This fully-indexed chronology and institutional bibliography traces the sometimes tumultuous history of this august body.
An analysis of laws and procedures governing contested elections and recounts
Author: Indiana University. Institute for Research in Public SafetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Barred by Congress
Author: Robert M. LichtmanPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700632727
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office Robert M. Lichtman provides a definitive history of congressional exclusion and expulsion cases. Lichtman offers a timely investigation of the vital constitutional issues, debated since the nation’s founding, concerning permissible and impermissible grounds for excluding a member-elect or expelling a member from Congress. Barred by Congress begins with an exhaustive review of the numerous congressional exclusion and expulsion cases in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before focusing on the stories of the last three members-elect to be excluded from Congress: a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American—each an outsider in American politics—excluded notwithstanding election by the voters. Lichtman illuminates each of these three remarkable individuals with a detailed biographical sketch. Brigham H. Roberts was a Utah Mormon whose exclusion from the House of Representatives in 1900 was fueled by a nationwide anti-Mormon campaign waged by William Randolph Hearst and his newspaper empire, a controversy centered on the issue of polygamy. Victor L. Berger, a Socialist Party leader and editor of an antiwar Milwaukee newspaper during World War I, was elected to the House despite the efforts of the Wilson administration to derail his campaign by indicting him under the Espionage Act; he was excluded in 1919 and again in 1920. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the House of Representatives from 1945 until his exclusion in 1967. In Powell v. McCormack, the Supreme Court ruled that Powell’s exclusion by the House violated the Constitution, a decision that, a half century later, remains established law but still does not provide complete assurance that the people will be able to (in Alexander Hamilton’s words) “choose whom they please to govern them.”
Report
Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2492
Book Description
Biennial Report
Author: Indiana State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description