Author: Vindicator (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apportionment (Election law)
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Apportionment Law of 1848, Compared and Contrasted with Former Apportionment Laws
Author: Vindicator (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apportionment (Election law)
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Principles of Political Economy
Author: John Stuart MillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Fair Representation
Author: Michel L. BalinskiPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780815716341
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The issue of fair representation will take center stage as U.S. congressional districts are reapportioned based on the 2000 Census. Using U.S. history as a guide, the authors develop a theory of fair representation that establishes various principles for translating state populations—or vote totals of parties—into a fair allocation of congressional seats. They conclude that the current apportionment formula cheats the larger states in favor of the smaller, contrary to the intentions of the founding fathers and compromising the Supreme Court's "one man, one vote" rulings. Balinski and Young interweave the theoretical development with a rich historical account of controversies over representation, and show how many of these principles grew out of political contests in the course of United States history. The result is a work that is at once history, politics, and popular science. The book—updated with data from the 1980 and 1990 Census counts—vividly demonstrates that apportionment deals with the very substance of political power.
The American Whig Review
Author: The North Platte Project
Author: Robert AutobeeMason's Manual of Legislative Procedure
Author: Paul MasonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781580249744
Category : Parliamentary practice
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut
Author: Dwight LoomisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery
Author: Robin BlackburnPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844674754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation colonies, toiled to produce the sugar, coffee, cotton, ginger and indigo craved by Europeans. By 1848 the major systems of colonial slavery had been swept away either by independence movements, slave revolts, abolitionists or some combination of all three. How did this happen? Robin Blackburn’s history captures the complexity of a revolutionary age in a compelling narrative. In some cases colonial rule fell while slavery flourished, as happened in the South of the United States and in Brazil; elsewhere slavery ended but colonial rule remained, as in the British West Indies and French Windwards. But in French St. Domingue, the future Haiti, and in Spanish South and Central America both colonialism and slavery were defeated. This story of slave liberation and American independence highlights the pivotal role of the “first emancipation” in the French Antilles in the 1790s, the parallel actions of slave resistance and metropolitan abolitionism, and the contradictory implications of slaveholder patriotism. The dramatic events of this epoch are examined from an unexpected vantage point, showing how the torch of anti-slavery passed from the medieval communes to dissident Quakers, from African maroons to radical pirates, from Granville Sharp and Ottabah Cuguano to Toussaint L’Ouverture, from the black Jacobins to the Liberators of South America, and from the African Baptists in Jamaica to the Revolutionaries of 1848 in Europe and the Caribbean.
A Manual of Parliamentary Practice
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parliamentary practice
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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