Author: Hubert PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative bodies
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Development of a Residential Qualification for Representatives in Colonial Legislatures
Author: Hubert PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative bodies
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Development of a Residential, Qualification for Representatives, in Colonial Legislatures (Classic Reprint)
Author: Hubert PhillipsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781332091041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Excerpt from The Development of a Residential, Qualification for Representatives, in Colonial Legislatures Geographically this study only covers the colonies which later became known as the Thirteen Original Colonies. In point of time it extends from the period of first settlement down to the end of the colonial period. In most of the colonies the requirement that a representative must be a resident of the district he represents was incorporated into the Revolutionary constitutions. In those colonies where this was not done the study has been continued, but not in detail into the period of statehood. At the very banning some space has been given to a survey of English Constitutional history so far as it relates to the subject in hand. This is justified by the close relationship, racial, social and institutional, which existed between the colonies and the mother country; a relationship so vital that we should expect to find every developing colonial institution to have a direct connection with some already well-developed English practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Development of a Residential Qualification for Representatives in Colonial Legislatures
Author: Hubert PhillipsThe Development of a Residential Qualification for Representatives in Colonial Legislatures
Author: Hubert 1884- [From Old Catalo PhillipsPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355446323
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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DEVELOPMENT OF A RESIDENTIAL Q
Author: Hubert 1884 PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781361806111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A Factious People
Author: Patricia U. BonomiPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
First published in 1971 and long out of print, this classic account of Colonial-era New York chronicles how the state was buffeted by political and sectional rivalries and by conflict arising from a wide diversity of ethnic and religious identities. New York's highly volatile and contentious political life, Patricia U. Bonomi shows, gave rise to a number of interest groups for whose support political leaders had to compete, resulting in new levels of democratic participation.
A History of American Life: Provincial society, 1690-1763
Author: The Rise of the Representative
Author: Peverill SquirePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472122924
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Representation is integral to the study of legislatures, yet virtually no attention has been given to how representative assemblies developed and what that process might tell us about how the relationship between the representative and the represented evolved. The Rise of the Representative corrects that omission by tracing the development of representative assemblies in colonial America and revealing they were a practical response to governing problems, rather than an imported model or an attempt to translate abstract philosophy into a concrete reality. Peverill Squire shows there were initially competing notions of representation, but over time the pull of the political system moved lawmakers toward behaving as delegates, even in places where they were originally intended to operate as trustees. By looking at the rules governing who could vote and who could serve, how representatives were apportioned within each colony, how candidates and voters behaved in elections, how expectations regarding their relationship evolved, and how lawmakers actually behaved, Squire demonstrates that the American political system that emerged following independence was strongly rooted in colonial-era developments.
The Concept of Constituency
Author: Andrew RehfeldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139446487
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
In virtually every democratic nation in the world, political representation is defined by where citizens live. In the United States, for example, Congressional Districts are drawn every 10 years as lines on a map. Why do democratic governments define political representation this way? Are territorial electoral constituencies commensurate with basic principles of democratic legitimacy? And why might our commitments to these principles lead us to endorse a radical alternative: randomly assigning citizens to permanent, single-member electoral constituencies that each looks like the nation they collectively represent? Using the case of the founding period of the United States as an illustration, and drawing from classic sources in Western political theory, this book describes the conceptual, historical, and normative features of the electoral constituency. As an institution conceptually separate from the casting of votes, the electoral constituency is little studied. Its historical origins are often incorrectly described. And as a normative matter, the constituency is almost completely ignored. Raising these conceptual, historical and normative issues, the argument culminates with a novel thought experiment of imagining how politics might change under randomized, permanent, national electoral constituencies. By focusing on how citizens are formally defined for the purpose of political representation, The Concept of Constituency thus offers a novel approach to the central problems of political representation, democratic legitimacy, and institutional design.
The Philadelawareans, and Other Essays Relating to Delaware
Author: John Andrew MunroePublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138726
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This volume presents a varied sampling of the author's writings from the past sixty years, along with some previously unpublished materials. It begins with a long prologue that the author calls a literary autobiography, and this story is continued and amplified in introductory notes that accompany each of the following items. the relationship between Delaware and the city of Philadelphia. This theme reappears in many guises in the background of other items as, for example, in a summary of New Castle's history, in an investigation of an experiment in nonresident representation in Congress, and in explanation of the unique importance of an early Wilmington collector of customs. In the last essay, previously unpublished, the relationship is personalized in a reminiscence contributing to the autobiographical theme with which the book began. at the University of Delaware.