Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections
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Pages : 710
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Digest of Election Cases
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections
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Pages : 710
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Barred by Congress
Author: Robert M. Lichtman
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700632727
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office Robert M. Lichtman provides a definitive history of congressional exclusion and expulsion cases. Lichtman offers a timely investigation of the vital constitutional issues, debated since the nation’s founding, concerning permissible and impermissible grounds for excluding a member-elect or expelling a member from Congress. Barred by Congress begins with an exhaustive review of the numerous congressional exclusion and expulsion cases in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before focusing on the stories of the last three members-elect to be excluded from Congress: a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American—each an outsider in American politics—excluded notwithstanding election by the voters. Lichtman illuminates each of these three remarkable individuals with a detailed biographical sketch. Brigham H. Roberts was a Utah Mormon whose exclusion from the House of Representatives in 1900 was fueled by a nationwide anti-Mormon campaign waged by William Randolph Hearst and his newspaper empire, a controversy centered on the issue of polygamy. Victor L. Berger, a Socialist Party leader and editor of an antiwar Milwaukee newspaper during World War I, was elected to the House despite the efforts of the Wilson administration to derail his campaign by indicting him under the Espionage Act; he was excluded in 1919 and again in 1920. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the House of Representatives from 1945 until his exclusion in 1967. In Powell v. McCormack, the Supreme Court ruled that Powell’s exclusion by the House violated the Constitution, a decision that, a half century later, remains established law but still does not provide complete assurance that the people will be able to (in Alexander Hamilton’s words) “choose whom they please to govern them.”
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700632727
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office Robert M. Lichtman provides a definitive history of congressional exclusion and expulsion cases. Lichtman offers a timely investigation of the vital constitutional issues, debated since the nation’s founding, concerning permissible and impermissible grounds for excluding a member-elect or expelling a member from Congress. Barred by Congress begins with an exhaustive review of the numerous congressional exclusion and expulsion cases in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before focusing on the stories of the last three members-elect to be excluded from Congress: a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American—each an outsider in American politics—excluded notwithstanding election by the voters. Lichtman illuminates each of these three remarkable individuals with a detailed biographical sketch. Brigham H. Roberts was a Utah Mormon whose exclusion from the House of Representatives in 1900 was fueled by a nationwide anti-Mormon campaign waged by William Randolph Hearst and his newspaper empire, a controversy centered on the issue of polygamy. Victor L. Berger, a Socialist Party leader and editor of an antiwar Milwaukee newspaper during World War I, was elected to the House despite the efforts of the Wilson administration to derail his campaign by indicting him under the Espionage Act; he was excluded in 1919 and again in 1920. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the House of Representatives from 1945 until his exclusion in 1967. In Powell v. McCormack, the Supreme Court ruled that Powell’s exclusion by the House violated the Constitution, a decision that, a half century later, remains established law but still does not provide complete assurance that the people will be able to (in Alexander Hamilton’s words) “choose whom they please to govern them.”
House documents
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Pages : 712
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Miscellaneous Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Digest of Election Cases
Author: J. H. Ellsworth
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265050569
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Excerpt from Digest of Election Cases: Cases of Contested Elections in the House of Representatives, Forty-Seventh Congress, From 1880 to 1882, Inclusive William H. Calkins, of Indiana. George C. Hazelton, Of Wisconsin. John T. Wait, of Connecticut. William G. Thompson, Of Iowa. Ambrose A. Ranney, Of Massachusetts. James M. Ritchie, Of Ohio. Augustus H. Pettibone, Of Tennessee. Samuel H. Miller, of Pennsylvania. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265050569
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Excerpt from Digest of Election Cases: Cases of Contested Elections in the House of Representatives, Forty-Seventh Congress, From 1880 to 1882, Inclusive William H. Calkins, of Indiana. George C. Hazelton, Of Wisconsin. John T. Wait, of Connecticut. William G. Thompson, Of Iowa. Ambrose A. Ranney, Of Massachusetts. James M. Ritchie, Of Ohio. Augustus H. Pettibone, Of Tennessee. Samuel H. Miller, of Pennsylvania. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Pages : 748
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Catalogue of the Library of the United States Senate
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Category : Government publications
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Pages : 620
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Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference Dept
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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