Author: Illinois. Constitutional Convention
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
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Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 1384

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Author: George William Van Cleve
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022664152X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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In 1783, as the Revolutionary War came to a close, Alexander Hamilton resigned in disgust from the Continental Congress after it refused to consider a fundamental reform of the Articles of Confederation. Just four years later, that same government collapsed, and Congress grudgingly agreed to support the 1787 Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, which altered the Articles beyond recognition. What occurred during this remarkably brief interval to cause the Confederation to lose public confidence and inspire Americans to replace it with a dramatically more flexible and powerful government? We Have Not a Government is the story of this contentious moment in American history. In George William Van Cleve’s book, we encounter a sharply divided America. The Confederation faced massive war debts with virtually no authority to compel its members to pay them. It experienced punishing trade restrictions and strong resistance to American territorial expansion from powerful European governments. Bitter sectional divisions that deadlocked the Continental Congress arose from exploding western settlement. And a deep, long-lasting recession led to sharp controversies and social unrest across the country amid roiling debates over greatly increased taxes, debt relief, and paper money. Van Cleve shows how these remarkable stresses transformed the Confederation into a stalemate government and eventually led previously conflicting states, sections, and interest groups to advocate for a union powerful enough to govern a continental empire. Touching on the stories of a wide-ranging cast of characters—including John Adams, Patrick Henry, Daniel Shays, George Washington, and Thayendanegea—Van Cleve makes clear that it was the Confederation’s failures that created a political crisis and led to the 1787 Constitution. Clearly argued and superbly written, We Have Not a Government is a must-read history of this crucial period in our nation’s early life.

Author: R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher: New York : R.R. Bowker Company
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1462

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Author: Public Affairs Information Service
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Author: Terry L. Jordan
Publisher: Oak Hill Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781891743153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Readers will see the entire text of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence and much more with interesting insights into the men who wrote the Constitution, how it was created, and how the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution.

Author: George D. Braden
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 650

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Author: Peverill Squire
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132334
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900 provides a comprehensive analysis of the role constituent instructions played in American politics for more than a hundred years after its founding. Constituent instructions were more widely issued than previously thought, and members of state legislatures and Congress were more likely to obey them than political scientists and historians have assumed. Peverill Squire expands our understanding of constituent instructions beyond a handful of high-profile cases, through analyses of two unique data sets: one examining more than 5,000 actionable communications (instructions and requests) sent to state legislators by constituents through town meetings, mass meetings, and local representative bodies; the other examines more than 6,600 actionable communications directed by state legislatures to their state’s congressional delegations. He draws the data, examples, and quotes almost entirely from original sources, including government documents such as legislative journals, session laws, town and county records, and newspaper stories, as well as diaries, memoirs, and other contemporary sources. Squire also includes instructions to and from Confederate state legislatures in both data sets. In every respect, the Confederate state legislatures mirrored the legislatures that preceded and followed them.

Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 936

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