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The House and Senate in the 1790s : petitioning, lobbying, and institutional development

Title
The House and Senate in the 1790s : petitioning, lobbying, and institutional development / edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon.
Publication
Athens, Ohio : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Bowling, Kenneth R.
  • Kennon, Donald R., 1948-
  • United States Capitol Historical Society.
Description
x, 348 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1789-1801
Subject
  • United States. Congress > History
  • Petition, Right of > United States > History
  • Lobbying > United States > History
  • United States > Politics and government > 1789-1815
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
From impotence to omnipotence: the debate over structuring Congress under the New Federal Constitution of 1787 / John P. Kaminski -- Petitioners and their grievances: a view from the First Federal Congress / William C. diGiacomantonio -- Private access and public power: gentility and lobbying in the Early Congress / Jeffrey L. Pasley -- Rites of passage: postal petitioning as a tool of governance in the age of federalism / Richard R. John and Christopher J. Young -- The "practicable sphere" of a republic: western ways of connecting to congress / Marion Nelson Winship --Contesting the character of the political economy in the early republic: rights and remedies in Chisholm v. Georgia / Christine A. Desan -- The electoral dynamics of ratification: federalist and antifederalist strength and cohesion, 1787-1803 / David J. Siemers -- The special relationship: the senate and the states, 1789-1801 / Terri D. Halperin -- The United States senate in Philadelphia: an institutional history of the 1790s / Richard A. Baker -- The institutional development of the House of Representatives, 1791-1801 / Raymond W. Smock.
Call Number
IDF 02-5016
ISBN
0821414194 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2001054591
OCLC
48177287
Title
The House and Senate in the 1790s : petitioning, lobbying, and institutional development / edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon.
Imprint
Athens, Ohio : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, c2002.
Series
Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1789-1801
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Bowling, Kenneth R.
Kennon, Donald R., 1948-
United States Capitol Historical Society.
Research Call Number
IDF 02-5016
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