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The Documentary History Of The First Federal Elections 1788 1790 Volume I
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Book Synopsis The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790 by : Merrill Jensen
Download or read book The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790 written by Merrill Jensen and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On spine: The first Federal elections, 1788-1790.Vols. 2-3: Gordon DenBoer, editor, Lucy Trumbull Brown, associate editor, Charles D. Hagermann, editorial assistant; v. 4: Gordon DenBoer, editor ... [et al.]. Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Book Synopsis The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790, Volume I by : Merrill Jensen
Download or read book The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790, Volume I written by Merrill Jensen and published by Documentary History of the Fir. This book was released on 1976-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of an ambitious project which, when completed, will offer to the historian of early America the first readily accessible account of the nation's first elections. Volume I documents the first federal elections in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. This book also covers the Constitution, the Confederation Congress, and federal elections, as well as the Confederation Congress and the First Federal Election Ordinance of September 13th, 1788. Included in the three-volume set are hundreds of documents which together illuminate the critical political events of the time and the men who forged them. The documents are both official ones--legislative journals, debates, and laws relating to the elections--and unofficial ones, including material from letters, diaries, newspapers, broadsides, and other sources. The subjects treated include the providing for the elections by the Confederation Congress; public and private commentary prior to the elections; and summaries of official and unofficial actions for each of the thirteen original states. The editors have provided biographical sketches of the candidates for election and sketches of the political events of the time in introductions, headnotes, and editorial notes, in order to place the documents in their historical context. These documents, most of which have been available to scholars only under the most difficult of circumstances, provided the basis for a more complete understanding of the fundamental political acts required to implement the Constitution after its ratification: the election of Representatives, Senators, Electors, and a President--the men who would give shape and meaning to the government created by the Constitution. Scholars and students of early American history, politics, and law will refer to these volumes frequently, in order to gain a fuller comprehension of the men, the events, and the temper of the times that led to the establishment of our early federal government.
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Book Synopsis The Documentary history of the first Federal elections, 1788-1790 v. 1 by : Merrill Jensen
Download or read book The Documentary history of the first Federal elections, 1788-1790 v. 1 written by Merrill Jensen and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791 by : United States Congress
Download or read book Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791 written by United States Congress and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two volumes complete the twenty-two volume documentary history, a monumental publishing project that began in 1972. With the publication of volumes 21 and 22, Johns Hopkins University Press completes the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789–1791, a comprehensive edition that presents the official records (volumes 1–8) and the unofficially reported debates (volumes 9–14) of this essential congress, as well as eight volumes of correspondence. These letters and other documents bring the official record to life, illustrating the often informal political negotiations of a young nation’s earliest leaders and revealing the world they lived in. Volume 21 begins with a section describing the move to Philadelphia’s Congress Hall. Third Session correspondence, arranged chronologically from November 1790 to March 1791, when Congress officially concluded its business, follows. Several key and potentially divisive issues—including a national bank, a tax on domestically produced spirits, and the final location of the permanent seat of the federal government—occupied the time and attention of Congress during this short session. In addition, reports of a successful attack on US troops by Native Americans in the Northwest Territory were the impetus for moves to increase the size of the military while continuing to negotiate with the Indian nations. Volume 22 is unique among the correspondence volumes in that it is topical. It begins with a section of firsthand accounts about Congress that were written after it adjourned, some as late as the 1840s. This is followed by sections of documents relating to the 1790 Treaty of New York with the Creek Nation and its aftermath, as well as the experience of FFC incumbents during the second federal election. The final section includes letters and other documents dated 1789 to 1791 that the editors discovered after the publication of the volume in which they would have otherwise appeared. The documents gathered here include selections from a book of poems by Representatives Thomas Tudor Tucker and John Page, and Page’s wife, Margaret Lowther, as well as listings from the New York Society Library’s ledger that recorded book loans to members in 1789 and 1790, when Congress met in New York City’s Federal Hall. The final volume concludes with an extensive editorial apparatus, including the biographical gazetteer and index for the two-volume set. This extensive index continues the editors’ policy of indexing all concepts to provide intellectual access.
Author :United States Congress Publisher :Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN 13 :9780801845772 Total Pages :912 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (457 download)
Book Synopsis Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791 by : United States Congress
Download or read book Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791 written by United States Congress and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes 12 and 13 of this highly acclaimed documentary edition cover the first Congress's second session, from January to August 1790. Among other important issues in this critical period, Congress debated Hamilton's report on the public credit, federal assumption of state Revolutionary War debts, and antislavery petitions from Pennsylvania Quakers. The editors once more have assembled the most complete and reliable text of the debates by examining a variety of sources: stenographer Thomas Lloyd's shorthand notes, his Congressional Register, and contemporary newspaper accounts.
Book Synopsis The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790, Volume I by : Merrill Jensen
Download or read book The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790, Volume I written by Merrill Jensen and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1976-06 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of an ambitious project which, when completed, will offer to the historian of early America the first readily accessible account of the nation's first elections. Volume I documents the first federal elections in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. This book also covers the Constitution, the Confederation Congress, and federal elections, as well as the Confederation Congress and the First Federal Election Ordinance of September 13th, 1788. Included in the three-volume set are hundreds of documents which together illuminate the critical political events of the time and the men who forged them. The documents are both official ones--legislative journals, debates, and laws relating to the elections--and unofficial ones, including material from letters, diaries, newspapers, broadsides, and other sources. The subjects treated include the providing for the elections by the Confederation Congress; public and private commentary prior to the elections; and summaries of official and unofficial actions for each of the thirteen original states. The editors have provided biographical sketches of the candidates for election and sketches of the political events of the time in introductions, headnotes, and editorial notes, in order to place the documents in their historical context. These documents, most of which have been available to scholars only under the most difficult of circumstances, provided the basis for a more complete understanding of the fundamental political acts required to implement the Constitution after its ratification: the election of Representatives, Senators, Electors, and a President--the men who would give shape and meaning to the government created by the Constitution. Scholars and students of early American history, politics, and law will refer to these volumes frequently, in order to gain a fuller comprehension of the men, the events, and the temper of the times that led to the establishment of our early federal government.
Author :United States Congress Publisher :Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN 13 :9780801845772 Total Pages :888 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (457 download)
Book Synopsis Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791 by : United States Congress
Download or read book Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791 written by United States Congress and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes 12 and 13 of this highly acclaimed documentary edition cover the first Congress's second session, from January to August 1790. Among other important issues in this critical period, Congress debated Hamilton's report on the public credit, federal assumption of state Revolutionary War debts, and antislavery petitions from Pennsylvania Quakers. The editors once more have assembled the most complete and reliable text of the debates by examining a variety of sources: stenographer Thomas Lloyd's shorthand notes, his Congressional Register, and contemporary newspaper accounts.
Book Synopsis Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791 by : United States Congress
Download or read book Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791 written by United States Congress and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume XIV of this widely acclaimed series takes us to the third session of Congress in December 1790, when for the first time under the new Constitution Congress took up quarters at Philadelphia. House and Senate met in cramped Congress Hall, which, in tacit comment on the fragility of the new federal government, the nearby Pennsylvania State House overshadowed. During this session Congress debated the federal courts, state militias and the U.S. military, the postal system, navigation bills, and other issues fundamental to the new order—which had already begun to raise suspicions. The Virginia delegation denounced federal assumption of state debts. Congress heatedly discussed Alexander Hamilton's proposed national bank—including whether the Constitution implied federal authority to establish one. Congress followed the secretary of the treasury in placing an excise tax on distilled spirits, a measure that soon led to open rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
Book Synopsis The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790 by : Merrill Jensen
Download or read book The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790 written by Merrill Jensen and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On spine: The first Federal elections, 1788-1790.Vols. 2-3: Gordon DenBoer, editor, Lucy Trumbull Brown, associate editor, Charles D. Hagermann, editorial assistant; v. 4: Gordon DenBoer, editor ... [et al.]. Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Book Synopsis Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791: Correspondence: second session: 15 March-June 1790 by : Linda Grant De Pauw
Download or read book Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791: Correspondence: second session: 15 March-June 1790 written by Linda Grant De Pauw and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? by : Alexander Keyssar
Download or read book Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? written by Alexander Keyssar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With every presidential election, Americans puzzle over the peculiar mechanism of the Electoral College. The author of the Pulitzer finalist The Right to Vote explains the enduring problem of this controversial institution. Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Most Americans would prefer a national popular vote, and Congress has attempted on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College. Several of these efforts—one as recently as 1970—came very close to winning approval. Yet this controversial system remains. Alexander Keyssar explains its persistence. After tracing the Electoral College’s tangled origins at the Constitutional Convention, he explores the efforts from 1800 to 2019 to abolish or significantly reform it, showing why each has thus far failed. Reasons include the tendency of political parties to elevate partisan advantage above democratic values, the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments, and, especially, the impulse to preserve white supremacy in the South, which led to the region’s prolonged backing of the Electoral College. The most common explanation—that small states have blocked reform for fear of losing influence—has only occasionally been true. Keyssar examines why reform of the Electoral College has received so little attention from Congress for the last forty years, as well as alternatives to congressional action such as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and state efforts to eliminate winner-take-all. In analyzing the reasons for past failures while showing how close the nation has come to abolishing the institution, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? offers encouragement to those hoping to produce change in the twenty-first century.
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Book Synopsis Constitutional History of the American Revolution by : John Phillip Reid
Download or read book Constitutional History of the American Revolution written by John Phillip Reid and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory, and the search for a constitutional settlement.
Download or read book Electing the House written by Jay K. Dow and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States we elect members of the House of Representative from single-member districts: the candidate who receives the most votes from each geographically defined district wins a seat in the House. This system—so long in place that it seems perfectly natural—is, however, unusual. Most countries use proportional representation to elect their legislatures. Electing the House is the first book-length study to explore how the US came to adopt the single-member district system, how it solidified into a seemingly permanent fixture of American government and whether it performs well by the standards it was intended to achieve. The US Constitution grants the states the authority to elect representatives in a manner of their own choosing, subject to restrictions that Congress might impose. Electing the House reminds us that in the nation's early years the states exercised this privilege and elected their representatives using a variety of methods. Dow traces the general adoption of the present system to the Jacksonian Era—specifically to the major franchise expansion and voter mobilization of the time. The single-member district plurality-rule system was the Federalists' solution to tyranny of the majority under the expectation of universal franchise, and the Jacksonian-Whigs–Era response to the political uncertainty caused by large-scale voter mobilization. The system was solidified concurrently with the enfranchisement of women in the early twentieth century and African Americans in the Civil Rights Era. Dow persuasively argues that the single-member district system became the way that we elect our representatives because it fits especially well within the corpus of political thought that informs our collective understanding of good governance and it performs well by the standards it was meant to achieve, and these standards are still relevant today. Locating the development of single-member district system within the context of American political thought, Dow's study clarifies the workings and the significance of a critical electoral process in our time. In the process, the book informs and enhances our understanding of the evolution of the American political system.
Book Synopsis The Bill of Rights and the States by : Patrick T. Conley
Download or read book The Bill of Rights and the States written by Patrick T. Conley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen individual state essays elucidate the complexitites of local and regional interests that shaped the debate over individual rights and the eventual adoption of the Bill of Rights.
Book Synopsis The Parties in American Presidential Elections, 1789-2020 by : Patrick Novotny
Download or read book The Parties in American Presidential Elections, 1789-2020 written by Patrick Novotny and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a timely understanding of the history of the Democratic and Republican Parties and their adaptability, endurance, and importance in presidential elections. Taking the reader from the beginnings of parties as caucuses of members of the First Congress meeting in 1789 through November 2020's presidential election, it provides a fascinating historical account of the debates, events, and personalities behind the beginnings of the nation's political parties. This includes the importance of national party nominating conventions in the nineteenth century, the growing importance of primary elections in nominations beginning in the early twentieth century, and the changes of campaigning for presidential candidates as they started to travel across the United States for the first time in the early twentieth century. The book tells the story of the beginnings of nationally televised presidential debates and any number of other changes in the era of broadcasting and now digital platforms for presidential elections in the twenty-first century. It finishes with a look at political dynamics since the November 2020 election and a study of negative partisanship to define how campaigning for the White House works today.
