Lawmaking And Legislators In Pennsylvania

Author : Craig W. Horle,Marianne S. Wokeck,Jeffrey L. Scheib,David Haugaard,Joy Wiltenburg,Joseph S. Foster,Rosalind J. Beiler
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512817003

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Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania, Volume 1, 1682-1709 by Craig W. Horle,Marianne S. Wokeck,Jeffrey L. Scheib,David Haugaard,Joy Wiltenburg,Joseph S. Foster,Rosalind J. Beiler Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Craig W. Horle,Jeffrey L. Scheib,Joseph S. Foster,David Haugaard,Carolyn M. Peters,Laurie M. Wolfe
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512817010

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Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania, Volume 2, 1710-1756 by Craig W. Horle,Jeffrey L. Scheib,Joseph S. Foster,David Haugaard,Carolyn M. Peters,Laurie M. Wolfe Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Craig W. Horle
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015024804075

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Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: 1682-1709 by Craig W. Horle Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Craig W. Horle
Publisher : House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Law
ISBN : 0966779452

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Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania by Craig W. Horle Pdf

The Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators is proud to announce publication of Volume 3 of its multi-volume series, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania. Volume 3, distributed by the Penn State University Press, covers the Assembly terms from 1757 through 1775, a period that witnessed the French and Indian War, the expansion of Pennsylvania, with the addition of Bedford, Northumberland, and Westmoreland counties, the Stamp Act crisis, the development of extra-legal committees, the creation of county militias, and the eventual overthrow of the colonial government. Among the legislators profiled in Volume 3 are Benjamin Franklin, William Allen, Joseph Galloway, Daniel Roberdeau, George Bryan, John Armstrong, William Thompson, Henry Keppele, Isaac Norris, Israel Pemberton, James Pemberton, George Taylor, George Ross, Emanuel Carpenter, John Morton, Nathaniel Pennock, Israel Jacobs, Robert McPherson, Edward Biddle, John Potts, Samuel Potts, Thomas Potts, Samuel Miles, Michael Hillegas, and Thomas Willing. Also included are a series of introductory essays focusing on such topics as the rules and procedures of the Assembly, the Pennsylvania Iron Industry, the legislators and civic improvement, the Quaker party, and the prelude to revolution. The volume also contains 16 charts, two maps, a complete sessions list for those years, and numerous appendices that highlight such topics as the religious affiliations and residences of the legislators, laws enacted in Pennsylvania, and committee assignments by speaker.

Author : Craig W. Horle,Jeffrey L. Scheib,Joseph S. Foster
Publisher : Anniversary Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Law
ISBN : 0812234030

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Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: 1710-1756 by Craig W. Horle,Jeffrey L. Scheib,Joseph S. Foster Pdf

Examines the Pennsylvania legislature from 1710 through 1756. After chapters on themes and issues in lawmaking in Pennsylvania during the period, biographies of 224 representatives highlight dominant themes including the relationship between the state's legislature and the seven proprietary governors, conflict between whites and Indian tribes and between Pennsylvanians and Marylanders, Quaker pacifism and the politics of defense, and the expansion of the state's population. Includes a glossary, chronology, tables of statistics on legislators, and lists of laws enacted and petitions to the Assembly. $145.00 until June 30, 1997. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Craig W. Horle
Publisher : House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Law
ISBN : 0966779452

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Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania by Craig W. Horle Pdf

The Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators is proud to announce publication of Volume 3 of its multi-volume series, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania. Volume 3, distributed by the Penn State University Press, covers the Assembly terms from 1757 through 1775, a period that witnessed the French and Indian War, the expansion of Pennsylvania, with the addition of Bedford, Northumberland, and Westmoreland counties, the Stamp Act crisis, the development of extra-legal committees, the creation of county militias, and the eventual overthrow of the colonial government. Among the legislators profiled in Volume 3 are Benjamin Franklin, William Allen, Joseph Galloway, Daniel Roberdeau, George Bryan, John Armstrong, William Thompson, Henry Keppele, Isaac Norris, Israel Pemberton, James Pemberton, George Taylor, George Ross, Emanuel Carpenter, John Morton, Nathaniel Pennock, Israel Jacobs, Robert McPherson, Edward Biddle, John Potts, Samuel Potts, Thomas Potts, Samuel Miles, Michael Hillegas, and Thomas Willing. Also included are a series of introductory essays focusing on such topics as the rules and procedures of the Assembly, the Pennsylvania Iron Industry, the legislators and civic improvement, the Quaker party, and the prelude to revolution. The volume also contains 16 charts, two maps, a complete sessions list for those years, and numerous appendices that highlight such topics as the religious affiliations and residences of the legislators, laws enacted in Pennsylvania, and committee assignments by speaker.

Author : William McEnery Offutt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0252021525

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Of "good Laws" and "good Men" by William McEnery Offutt Pdf

Of "Good Laws" and "Good Men" reveals how a Quaker minority in the Delaware Valley used the law to its own advantage yet maintained the legitimacy of its rule. William Offutt, Jr., places legal processes at the center of this region's social history. The new societies established there in the late 1600s did not rely on religious conformity, culture, or a simple majority to develop successfully, Offutt maintains. Rather, they succeeded because of the implementation of reforms that gave the expanding population faith in the legitimacy of legal processes introduced by a Quaker elite. Offutt's painstaking investigation of the records of more than 2,000 civil and 1,100 criminal cases in four county courts over a thirty-year period shows that Quakers - the "Good Men" - were disproportionately represented as justices, officers, and jurors in this system of "Good Laws" they had established, and that they fared better than did the rest of the population in dealing with it.

Author : John J. Hare
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780271081977

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The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania by John J. Hare Pdf

Established in 1684, over a century before the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court is the oldest appellate court in North America. This balanced, comprehensive history of the Court examines over three centuries of legal proceedings and cases before the body, the controversies and conflicts with which it dealt, and the impact of its decisions and of the case law its justices created Introduced by constitutional scholar Ken Gormley, this volume describes the Supreme Court’s structure and powers and focuses at length on the Court’s work in deciding notable cases of constitutional law, civil rights, torts, criminal law, labor law, and administrative law. Through three sections, “The Structure and Powers of the Supreme Court,” “Decisional Law of the Supreme Court,” and “Reporting Supreme Court Decisions,” the contributors address the many ways in which the Court and its justices have shaped life and law in Pennsylvania and beyond. They consider how it has adjudicated new and complex issues arising from some of the most notable events and tragedies in American history, including the struggle for religious liberty in colonial Pennsylvania, the Revolutionary War, slavery, the Johnstown Flood, the Homestead Steel Strike and other labor conflicts, both World Wars, and, more recently, the dramatic rise of criminal procedural rights and the expansion of tort law. Featuring an afterword by Chief Justice Saylor and essays by leading jurists, deans, law and history professors, and practicing attorneys, this fair-minded assessment of the Court is destined to become a criterion volume for lawmakers, scholars, and anyone interested in legal history in the Keystone State and the United States.

Author : Pennsylvania
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Executive departments
ISBN : UOM:39015073066287

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Pennsylvania State Manual by Pennsylvania Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210026473015

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Patrick Spero
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812248616

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Frontier Country by Patrick Spero Pdf

Synthesizing the tensions between high and low politics and eastern and western regions in Pennsylvania before the Revolution, Patrick Spero recasts the importance of frontiers, as eighteenth-century Pennsylvanians would have understood them, to the development of colonial America and the origins of American Independence.

Author : John V. Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754073527669

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How Our Laws are Made by John V. Sullivan Pdf

Author : William Pencak
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271035796

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Pennsylvania's Revolution by William Pencak Pdf

"A collection of essays on the American Revolution in Pennsylvania. Topics include the politicization of the English- and German-language press and the population they served; the Revolution in remote areas of the state; and new historical perspectives on the American and British armies during the Valley Forge winter"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Craig Volden,Alan E. Wiseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521761529

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Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress by Craig Volden,Alan E. Wiseman Pdf

This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.

Author : Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786634733

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The Fearless Benjamin Lay by Marcus Rediker Pdf

The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He performed public guerrilla theatre to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity. He wrote a fiery, controversial book against bondage that Benjamin Franklin published in 1738. He lived in a cave, made his own clothes, refused to consume anything produced by slave labour, championed animal rights, and embraced vegetarianism. He acted on his ideals to create a new, practical, revolutionary way of life.