Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Speech of Mr. Summers, of Virginia, on the Contested Election of the Members of the House of Representatives
Author: George William SummersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Speech ... on the contested election of the Members of the House of Representatives, elected by the general ticket system in the States of New Hampshire, Georgia, Missouri, and Mississippi. Delivered in the House of Representatives ... February 10, 1844
Author: George W. SUMMERS (Member of the House of Representatives, U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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.
History of Woman Suffrage: 1900-1920
Author: Elizabeth Cady StantonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
The Fugitive Slave Law and It's Victims (Illustrated)
Author: American Anti-Slavery SocietyPublisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3730989669
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
The Fugitive Slave Law was enacted by Congress in September, 1850, received the signature of HOWELL COBB, [of Georgia,] as Speaker of the House of Representatives, of WILLIAM R. KING, [of Alabama,] as President of the Senate, and was "approved," September 18th, of that year, by MILLARD FILLMORE, Acting President of the United States. The authorship of the Bill is generally ascribed to James M. Mason, Senator from Virginia. Before proceeding to the principal object of this tract, it is proper to give a synopsis of the Act itself, which was well called, by the New York Evening Post, "An Act for the Encouragement of Kidnapping." It is in ten sections.