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Senate Procedure and Practice: An Introductory Manual
 Martin Gold
 0742534510
 October 2004
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Book Description
The United States Senate, unlike the United States House of Representatives, is a place where political minorities and individual members hold great power, resting on authority drawn from Senate rules and more than two hundred years of related precedents and traditions. This fundamental truth provides a necessary context for understanding the subject matter as detailed and explained in Senate Procedure and Practice: An Introductory Manual.
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Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791
United States
0801812801
July 1972
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Review
"This Documentary History is of immense historical significance and is the kind of record that helps all branches of government keep their constitutional bearings." -- Warren Burger
"It is impossible to overemphasize the importance to our times of [this] publication." -- Carl Albert
Book Description
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... |
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Senate Procedure and Practice
Martin B. Gold
0742534529
October 2004
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Book Description
The United States Senate, unlike the United States House of Representatives, is a place where political minorities and individual members hold great power, resting on authority drawn from Senate rules and more than two hundred years of related precedents and traditions. This fundamental truth provides a necessary context for understanding the subject matter as detailed and explained in Senate Procedure and Practice: An Introductory Manual.
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The House and Senate Explained
Ellen Greenberg
0393314960
Sept 1996
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From School Library Journal
YA. The perfect book for teens agonizing through Civics or American Government classes and finding the workings of Congress completely incomprehensible. Greenberg simplifies, explains, and presents the legislative branch in ways that bring clarity to confusion. She begins with the basics?how both the House and Senate are physically organized. Two diagrams for each explain and show the positions of the "mace," the "hopper," and other accouterments of government. Seventeen "players," or named positions, in the House and 13 in the Senate are described as well. A chapter entitled "The Script" gives alphabetically listed terms used in legislation. A typical congressional day is outlined and a pithy explanation of the steps from a bill to law is offered. An excellent reference source, the book includes a full... |
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Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew
Douglas Dion
0472108204
December 1997
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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.... |
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House and Senate
Ross K. Baker
0393976114
Sept 2000
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From Library Journal
This is an informative and clearly written portrait of America's unique bicameral legislature. Baker, a political scientist and author of Friend and Foe in the U.S. Senate ( LJ 4/1/80), weaves into his text parts of numerous interviews he conducted with legislators, journalists, and lobbyists. He paints a complex picture of an adversarial House of Representatives struggling to satisfy the majority interests of its constituents and a consensus-seeking, compromising Senate focused on the so-called "national interest." He shows how each body is affected by size, length of term, history, constitutional limits, lobbyists, and journalists, and how they can be viewed as a microcosm of the American system of checks and balances. An unusually accessible synthesis of a topic that is of interest to general readers and... |
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House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying and Institutional Development
Kenneth R. Bowling (Editor)
0821414194
April 2002
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The Making of an American Senate
Elaine K. Swift
0472088718
Mar 2002
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Book Description
At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the framers created a Senate that was nothing short of an American House of Lords. Until the early 1800s, it remained the insulated, legislatively reactive, and executive-friendly upper chamber the Framers intended. By 1841, however, it had become the distinctly American Senate we recognize today: popularly oriented, legislatively proactive, and often independent of executive influence. The Making of an American Senate uses this story to explain how Congress is at times capable of dramatic and enduring institutional change.
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Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective
David E. Smith
0802087884
August 2003
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Constituencies and Leaders in Congress
John Jackson
0674165403
Jan 1974
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Elizabeth Dole
Dale Anderson
079107997X
January 2004
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Us Congress Guide, Volume 1 Us Senate
International Business Publications
073976103X
May 2004
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Book Description
Ultimate guide in the parliament of the country. Committees, members, legislative process. Political and government structure, constitution and more...
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Elizabeth Dole
Dale Anderson
0791077330
February 2004
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Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791
United States
080181572X
July 1974
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"This Documentary History is of immense historical significance and is the kind of record that helps all branches of government keep their constitutional bearings." -- Warren Burger
"It is impossible to overemphasize the importance to our times of [this] publication." -- Carl Albert
Book Description
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... |
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Road to Mass Democracy: Original Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment
C. H. Hoebeke
1560002174
July 1995
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The Transformation of the U.S. Senate
Barbara Sinclair
0801841100
Aug 1990
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"An excellent book on the modern Senate... Sinclair deftly combines quantitative and qualitative research approaches with insights drawn from organization and rational choice theory to provide an appealing analysis of institutional change and to speculate wisely on its broader normative significance." -- Political Science Quarterly
About the Author
Barbara Sinclair is professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside.
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Second Chambers
Nicholas D. Baldwin
0714651443
September 2001
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Book Description
Notwithstanding the fact that among the parliaments of the world, 38 per cent have Second Chambers (67 out of 179), Second Chambers themselves have only rarely been the focus of attention from politicians and have almost totally been ignored by academics.
Some long-established second chambers have, on occasions, been under considerable pressure to modernize and reform, such as the House of Lords in the United Kingdom. They often play a major role in political and governmental affairs, such as in Germany; and many have very significant political power, such as the Senate in the United States.
This book sets about examining the nature of Second Chambers.
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U.S. Senate Exceptionalism
Bruce I. Oppenheimer
0814209157
Nov 2002
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101 Chambers
Peverill Squire
0814209386
Feb 2005
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Competing Principals
Forrest Maltzman
0472085816
October 1998
Textbook Paperback
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Book Description
Since Woodrow Wilson, political scientists have recognized the importance of congressional committees in the policy-making process. Congressional committees often determine what legislation will reach the floor of the House or Senate and what form that legislation will take. In spite of the broad consensus on the importance of congressional committees, there is little agreement on what explains committee action. Committees are alternately viewed as agents of the chamber, the party caucuses, or constituencies outside the institution. Each theory suggests a different distribution of power in the policy-making process.
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