Author: Thomas Erskine May
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Languages : en
Pages : 900
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A Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings, and Usage of Parliament. Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged
Author: Thomas Erskine May
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Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 900
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A Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament
Author: May
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Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Languages : en
Pages : 880
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A Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings, and Usage of Parliament
Author: Thomas Erskine May
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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The Unreformed House of Commons
Author: Edward Porritt
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew
Author: George Douglas Dion
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472022695
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The use of filibusters in the U.S. Senate by small numbers of members to prevent legislative action apparently desired by a majority of the members--as evidenced by the battles over civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s--is legendary. Similar situations have existed in other legislative bodies over time. The fear that they will at some time be in the minority has inhibited actions by the majority groups to control the right of minority groups to block legislative action. And yet from time to time the majority in a legislative body has forced a change in the rules to control the rights of the minority. When does the majority seek to limit minority rights to obstruct legislation? Douglas Dion, in a unique study, develops a formal model to set out the conditions under which majorities will limit minority rights. He finds that when majorities are small, they will be more cohesive. This majority cohesion leads to minority obstruction, which in turn leads to majority efforts to force procedural change to control the ability of the minority to obstruct legislation. Dion then tests his findings in a rich consideration of historical cases from the nineteenth-century U.S. House of Representatives, the nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. Senate, the British House of Commons, and an account of the Austro-Hungarian Parliament written by Mark Twain. Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew is a work that combines formal analysis with extensive historical evidence to address an important problem in democratic theory. Specialists in legislative politics and American political development, as well as those more broadly interested in the relationship between democratic theory and institutional structure, will find the work of great interest. Douglas Dion is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472022695
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The use of filibusters in the U.S. Senate by small numbers of members to prevent legislative action apparently desired by a majority of the members--as evidenced by the battles over civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s--is legendary. Similar situations have existed in other legislative bodies over time. The fear that they will at some time be in the minority has inhibited actions by the majority groups to control the right of minority groups to block legislative action. And yet from time to time the majority in a legislative body has forced a change in the rules to control the rights of the minority. When does the majority seek to limit minority rights to obstruct legislation? Douglas Dion, in a unique study, develops a formal model to set out the conditions under which majorities will limit minority rights. He finds that when majorities are small, they will be more cohesive. This majority cohesion leads to minority obstruction, which in turn leads to majority efforts to force procedural change to control the ability of the minority to obstruct legislation. Dion then tests his findings in a rich consideration of historical cases from the nineteenth-century U.S. House of Representatives, the nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. Senate, the British House of Commons, and an account of the Austro-Hungarian Parliament written by Mark Twain. Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew is a work that combines formal analysis with extensive historical evidence to address an important problem in democratic theory. Specialists in legislative politics and American political development, as well as those more broadly interested in the relationship between democratic theory and institutional structure, will find the work of great interest. Douglas Dion is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan.
Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages :
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Adair's New Encyclopedia...
Author: Francis Joseph Reynolds
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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United States Reports
Author: United States. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: United States. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
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Complete with headnotes, summaries of decisions, statements of cases, points and authorities of counsel, annotations, tables, and parallel references.
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
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Complete with headnotes, summaries of decisions, statements of cases, points and authorities of counsel, annotations, tables, and parallel references.
United States Supreme Court Reports
Author: United States. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.