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

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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, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Bowling, Kenneth R.
  • Kennon, Donald R., 1948-
  • United States Capitol Historical Society.
Description
x, 348 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1789-1801
Uniform Title
Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1789-1801.
Alternative Title
House & Senate in the 1790s
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.
ISBN
0821414194 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2001054591
OCLC
  • ocm48177287
  • SCSB-4266554
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries