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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

Author: Kenneth R Bowling; Donald R Kennon; United States Capitol Historical Society.
Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, ©2002.
Series: Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1789-1801.
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House and Senate in the 1790s.
Athens, Ohio : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, c2002
(OCoLC)606795967
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kenneth R Bowling; Donald R Kennon; United States Capitol Historical Society.
ISBN: 0821414194 9780821414194
OCLC Number: 48177287
Description: x, 348 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1789-1801.
Responsibility: edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon.

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