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The Invention of the United States Senate

By - Wirls, Daniel,
Floor - Floor 1
Published - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, ©2004
ISBN 10 - 0801874394
ISBN 13 - 9780801874390
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - United States. Congress. Senate
Shelf No - 15
Call Number - 328.7307 WIR
Physical Description - x, 274 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes - Includes Index
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The invention of the United States Senate was the most complicated and confounding achievement of the Constitutional Convention. Although much has been written on various aspects of Senate history, this is the first book to examine and link the three central components of the Senate's creation: the theoretical models and institutional precedents leading up to the Constitutional Convention; the work of the Constitutional Convention on both the composition and powers of the Senate; and the initial institutionalization of the Senate from ratification through the early years of Congress. The authors show how theoretical principles of a properly constructed Senate interacted with political interests and power politics in the multidimensional struggle to construct the Senate, before, during, and after the convention.

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