Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Slavery, a Bibliographic Guide to the Microfiche Collection
Author: Microfilming Corporation of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Slavery, a Bibliography and Union List of the Microform Collection
Author: Microfilming Corporation of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Catalog of Printed Books
Author: Bancroft LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure
Author: Paul MasonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781580249744
Category : Parliamentary practice
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign debates
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress
Author: Donald C. BaconFighting 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.
Parliamentary Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: Asher Crosby HindsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parliamentary practice
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description