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Author : Anne M. Butler,Wendy Wolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00933065R
Author : Anne M. Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9995339625
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Historical Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1063888114
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32437122586122
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:AA0008209975
Author : Alexander P. Kessler
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1594548951
Created in 1787, the United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. In the Senate, each state is equally represented by two members, regardless of population; as a result, the total membership of the body is 100. Senators serve for six-year terms that are staggered so elections are held for approximately one-third of the seats (a "class") every second year. The Vice President of the United States is the presiding officer of the Senate but is not a senator and does not vote except to break ties. The Senate is regarded as a more deliberative body than the House of Representatives; the Senate is smaller and its members serve longer terms, allowing for a more collegial and less partisan atmosphere that is somewhat more insulated from public opinion than the House. The Senate has several exclusive powers enumerated in the Constitution not granted to the House; most significantly, the President must ratify treaties and make important appointments "with the Advice and Consent of the Senate" (Article I). This fully-indexed chronology and institutional bibliography traces the sometimes tumultuous history of this august body.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112001098653
Author : N. O. Kura
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1594545251
The Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress, created in Article I, Section 1 of the US Constitution. The Senate has 100 members, who serve for 6-year terms with one-third of the seats up for re-election every two years. Every state has two Senators. This book sheds light on the structure and operating procedures of this dynamic body.
Author : Richard Lawrence Miller
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476691718
The American Republic's founders debated whether to have a government based on direct democracy (in which the general population decided public policy questions, as in a New England town meeting) or representative democracy (in which those decisions were made by senators and congressmen on behalf of the general population). A related issue was whether the general population should have the "right of instruction" which gave citizens authority to expel from office government officials who disobeyed the desires of the population. The right of instruction is now largely forgotten but in former times was considered so important that it was routinely included in state constitutions. This book examines the competition between direct democracy and representative democracy in the United States, focusing particularly on the doctrine of instruction, through the lens of the pre-presidential career of Abraham Lincoln.
Author : Fergus M. Bordewich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439124611
Chronicles the 1850s appeals of Western territories to join the Union as slave or free states, profiling period balances in the Senate, Henry Clay's attempts at compromise, and the border crisis between New Mexico and Texas.
Author : Edward B. Foley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197775844
The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fraud. Since the founding of the nation, violence frequently erupted as the votes were being counted, and more than a few elections produced manifestly unfair results. Despite America's claim to be the world's greatest democracy, its adherence to the basic tenets of democratic elections-the ability to count ballots accurately and fairly even when the stakes are high-has always been shaky. A rigged gubernatorial election in New York in 1792 nearly ended in calls for another revolution, and an 1899 gubernatorial race even resulted in an assassination. Though acts of violence have decreased in frequency over the past century, fairness and accuracy in ballot counting nonetheless remains a basic problem in American political life. In Ballot Battles, Edward Foley presents a sweeping history of election controversies in the United States, tracing how their evolution generated legal precedents that ultimately transformed how we determine who wins and who loses. While weaving a narrative spanning over two centuries, Foley repeatedly returns to an originating event: because the Founding Fathers despised parties and never envisioned the emergence of a party system, they wrote a constitution that did not provide clear solutions for high-stakes and highly-contested elections in which two parties could pool resources against one another. Moreover, in the American political system that actually developed, politicians are beholden to the parties which they represent - and elected officials have typically had an outsized say in determining the outcomes of extremely close elections that involve recounts. This underlying structural problem, more than anything else, explains why intense ballot battles that leave one side feeling aggrieved will continue to occur for the foreseeable future. American democracy has improved dramatically over the last two centuries. But the same cannot be said for the ways in which we determine who wins the very close races. From the founding until today, there has been little progress toward fixing the problem. Indeed, supporters of John Jay in 1792 and opponents of Lyndon Johnson in the 1948 Texas Senate race would find it easy to commiserate with Al Gore after the 2000 election. Ballot Battles is not only the first full chronicle of contested elections in the US. It also provides a powerful explanation of why the American election system has been-and remains-so ineffective at deciding the tightest races in a way that all sides will agree is fair.
Author : Cayce Myers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793640284
Money in Politics: Campaign Fundraising in the 2020 Presidential Election illustrates political fundraising’s importance in the 2020 presidential election from the party primaries through the General Election. Cayce Myers addresses how the role of corporate donations, individual contributors, and small donorship have become political talking points. Specific attention is given to the evolution of political fundraising, including a discussion regarding super-PACs, joint fundraising committees, and campaign committees. Myers explores how modern fundraising prowess serves as a barrier to successful entry into top tier candidacy but does not necessarily guarantee victory.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Conflict of interests
ISBN : PURD:32754068873482
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Wendy J. Schiller,Charles Stewart III
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691163178
How U.S. senators were chosen prior to the Seventeenth Amendment—and the consequences of Constitutional reform From 1789 to 1913, U.S. senators were not directly elected by the people—instead the Constitution mandated that they be chosen by state legislators. This radically changed in 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving the public a direct vote. Electing the Senate investigates the electoral connections among constituents, state legislators, political parties, and U.S. senators during the age of indirect elections. Wendy Schiller and Charles Stewart find that even though parties controlled the partisan affiliation of the winning candidate for Senate, they had much less control over the universe of candidates who competed for votes in Senate elections and the parties did not always succeed in resolving internal conflict among their rank and file. Party politics, money, and personal ambition dominated the election process, in a system originally designed to insulate the Senate from public pressure. Electing the Senate uses an original data set of all the roll call votes cast by state legislators for U.S. senators from 1871 to 1913 and all state legislators who served during this time. Newspaper and biographical accounts uncover vivid stories of the political maneuvering, corruption, and partisanship—played out by elite political actors, from elected officials, to party machine bosses, to wealthy business owners—that dominated the indirect Senate elections process. Electing the Senate raises important questions about the effectiveness of Constitutional reforms, such as the Seventeenth Amendment, that promised to produce a more responsive and accountable government.