Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Reports of Committees
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905
Author: Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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American Biography
Author: William Richard Cutter
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Fighting for the Speakership
Author: Jeffery A. Jenkins
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691156441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of the speakership a routine matter, is far from straightforward. Fighting for the Speakership provides a comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the U.S. House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today. Jeffery Jenkins and Charles Stewart show how the speakership began as a relatively weak office, and how votes for Speaker prior to the Civil War often favored regional interests over party loyalty. While struggle, contention, and deadlock over House organization were common in the antebellum era, such instability vanished with the outbreak of war, as the majority party became an "organizational cartel" capable of controlling with certainty the selection of the Speaker and other key House officers. This organizational cartel has survived Gilded Age partisan strife, Progressive Era challenge, and conservative coalition politics to guide speakership elections through the present day. Fighting for the Speakership reveals how struggles over House organization prior to the Civil War were among the most consequential turning points in American political history.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691156441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of the speakership a routine matter, is far from straightforward. Fighting for the Speakership provides a comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the U.S. House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today. Jeffery Jenkins and Charles Stewart show how the speakership began as a relatively weak office, and how votes for Speaker prior to the Civil War often favored regional interests over party loyalty. While struggle, contention, and deadlock over House organization were common in the antebellum era, such instability vanished with the outbreak of war, as the majority party became an "organizational cartel" capable of controlling with certainty the selection of the Speaker and other key House officers. This organizational cartel has survived Gilded Age partisan strife, Progressive Era challenge, and conservative coalition politics to guide speakership elections through the present day. Fighting for the Speakership reveals how struggles over House organization prior to the Civil War were among the most consequential turning points in American political history.
Bringing Them Home
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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History of New London, Connecticut
Author: Frances Manwaring Caulkins
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Category : New London (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Category : New London (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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A History of the Committee on House Administration, 1947-2012
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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History of Cass County, Indiana
Author: Thomas B. Helm
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Category : Cass County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Category : Cass County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The Indigo Book
Author: Christopher Jon Sprigman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1892628023
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This public domain book is an open and compatible implementation of the Uniform System of Citation.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1892628023
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This public domain book is an open and compatible implementation of the Uniform System of Citation.
The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908
Author: Edward Hooker
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
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