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Inventing Congress : origins and establishment of the First Federal Congress

Title: Inventing Congress : origins and establishment of the First Federal Congress / edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon.
Publication: Athens, Ohio : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, 1999.

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x, 305 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Inventing Congress collects the best available scholarship on the First Federal Congress, revisiting the record from a perspective of two hundred years. Fresh, informative, and enlightening, the essays touch on some of the formidable challenges facing the leaders of the new republic. The papers collected in Inventing Congress originated in two conferences held in 1994 and 1995 sponsored by the United States Capitol Historical Society in its series, "Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789-1801."

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"The papers collected in Inventing Congress originated in two conferences held in 1994 and 1995 sponsored by the United States Capitol Historical Society in its series, 'Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1789-1801'"--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface / Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon -- I. Origins. The Classical Roots of the U.S. Congress: Mixed Government Theory / Carl J. Richard. Thoughts on Why America Chose a Congressional Rather than a Parliamentary Form of Government / Alison G. Olson. The Colonial and Early State Legislative Process / Donald S. Lutz. Parliamentary Principles, American Realities: The Continental and Confederation Congresses, 1774-89 / R. B. Bernstein -- II. Establishment of the First Federal Congress. A New Matrix for National Politics: The First Federal Elections, 1788-90 / R. B. Bernstein. "Public Attention Is Very Much Fixed on the Proceedings of the New Congress": The First Federal Congress Organizes Itself / Charlene Bangs Bickford. Throwing Open the Doors: The First Federal Congress and the Eighteenth-Century Media / Charlene Bangs Bickford. Rep. James Jackson of Georgia and the Establishment of the Southern States' Rights Tradition in Congress / Marie Sauer Lambremont.
To Form the Character of the American People: Public Support for the Arts, Sciences, and Morality in the First Federal Congress / William C. diGiacomantonio. Religious Freedom and the First Federal Congress / Herbert M. Druks. The Invisible Smith: The Impact of Adam Smith on the Foundation of Early American Economic Policy during the First Federal Congress, 1789-91 / William P. Cowin.

ISBN

082141271X (alk. paper)

LCCN

98046969

OCLC

ocm40256093

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Columbia University Libraries