The Evolution Of American Legislatures
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Author | : Peverill Squire |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2012-06-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472028405 |
The institutional development of American legislatures, beginning with the first colonial assembly of 1619, has been marked by continuity as well as change. Peverill Squire draws upon a wealth of primary sources to document this institutional history. Beginning with the ways in which colonial assemblies followed the precedents of British institutions, Squire traces the fundamental ways they evolved to become distinct. He next charts the formation of the first state legislatures and the Constitutional Congress, describes the creation of territorial and new state legislatures, and examines the institutionalization of state legislatures in the nineteenth century and their professionalization since 1900. With his conclusion, Squire discusses the historical trajectory of American legislatures and suggests how they might further develop over the coming decades. While Squire's approach will appeal to historians, his focus on the evolution of rules, procedures, and standing committee systems, as well as member salaries, legislative sessions, staff, and facilities, will be valuable to political scientists and legislative scholars.
Author | : Peverill Squire |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472132334 |
The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900 provides a comprehensive analysis of the role constituent instructions played in American politics for more than a hundred years after its founding. Constituent instructions were more widely issued than previously thought, and members of state legislatures and Congress were more likely to obey them than political scientists and historians have assumed. Peverill Squire expands our understanding of constituent instructions beyond a handful of high-profile cases, through analyses of two unique data sets: one examining more than 5,000 actionable communications (instructions and requests) sent to state legislators by constituents through town meetings, mass meetings, and local representative bodies; the other examines more than 6,600 actionable communications directed by state legislatures to their state’s congressional delegations. He draws the data, examples, and quotes almost entirely from original sources, including government documents such as legislative journals, session laws, town and county records, and newspaper stories, as well as diaries, memoirs, and other contemporary sources. Squire also includes instructions to and from Confederate state legislatures in both data sets. In every respect, the Confederate state legislatures mirrored the legislatures that preceded and followed them.
Author | : Peverill Squire |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2012-06-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472118315 |
Squire offers a comprehensive history of legislatures, core institutions in American political development
Author | : Peverill Squire |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472128477 |
The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900 provides a comprehensive analysis of the role constituent instructions played in American politics for more than a hundred years after its founding. Constituent instructions were more widely issued than previously thought, and members of state legislatures and Congress were more likely to obey them than political scientists and historians have assumed. Peverill Squire expands our understanding of constituent instructions beyond a handful of high-profile cases, through analyses of two unique data sets: one examining more than 5,000 actionable communications (instructions and requests) sent to state legislators by constituents through town meetings, mass meetings, and local representative bodies; the other examines more than 6,600 actionable communications directed by state legislatures to their state’s congressional delegations. He draws the data, examples, and quotes almost entirely from original sources, including government documents such as legislative journals, session laws, town and county records, and newspaper stories, as well as diaries, memoirs, and other contemporary sources. Squire also includes instructions to and from Confederate state legislatures in both data sets. In every respect, the Confederate state legislatures mirrored the legislatures that preceded and followed them.
Author | : Nancy Martorano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
American state legislatures have evolved dramatically throughout their history (Squire and Hamm 2005). In particular, the structures, rules and procedures governing the operations legislatures have changed significantly over the course of the 20th and 21st Centuries (Hamm, Hedlund and Martorano 2001, 2006; Martorano 2006). The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical framework for studying the development and evolution of American state legislatures.
Author | : Peverill Squire |
Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0814209386 |
"The book compares and contrasts Congress and the state legislatures on histories, fundamental structures, institutional and organizational characteristics, and members. By highlighting the vast array of organizational schemes and behavioral patterns evidenced in state legislatures, the authors demonstrate that the potential for the study of American legislatures, as opposed to the separate efforts of Congressional and state legislative scholars, is to great to leave unexplored."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Paul Samuel Reinsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Legislative bodies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peverill Squire |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2019-07-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1538123371 |
A concise and provocative introduction to state legislative politics, State Legislatures Today is designed as a supplement for state and local government courses and upper level courses on legislative politics. The book examines state legislatures and state lawmakers, putting them in historical context, showing how they have evolved over the years, and differentiating them from Congress. It covers state legislative elections (including the impact of redistricting, candidate recruitment, etc.), the changing job description of state legislators, legislatures as organizations, the process by which legislation gets produced, and the influences upon legislators.
Author | : Alan Rosenthal |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2004-07-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1483304876 |
What makes for a "good" legislature? In Heavy Lifting, Alan Rosenthal traveled to five states, interviewing and shadowing legislators to find out the answer. Through this engaging narrative, the author first establishes the most important aspects of American state legislatures--what they are and how they do their jobs--and then graduates to the book’s central thesis: Rosenthal argues that, on the whole, the American legislature must be evaluated on the basis of its processes, not its products. He breaks down the legislative process into three principal functions: representing, lawmaking, and balancing the executive, and covers each in turn in the remainder of the book.
Author | : Daniel Berkowitz |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691136041 |
The book also examines the effects of early legal systems.