Gift of Government - Political Responsibility from the English Restoration to American Independence (Paperback)

This book is a study in the history of political communication. Today we take it for granted that the people of a democracy have a right to know how their representatives speak and vote. But in the period of the American Revolution this development was new in both Britain and America. No assembly debates were reported in the colonial press; the constitutional convention of 1787 notoriously met in secret; even the U.S. senate kept its doors closed for its first decade. In Britain parliamentary debates were officially secret until reporting was increasingly but unofficially tolerated due to the pressure of public interest in the same period. Members of Parliament increasingly had their speeches printed for public consumption.In 1803 the Speaker set a gallery aside for the press reporters.

J. R. Pole shows that similar forces worked to bring about these profound changes in the concept of political accountability in both the new American republic and the republican aspects of the British mixed monarchy.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2008
First published:	August 2008
Authors:	J.R. Pole
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-3274-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
LSN:	0-8203-3274-7
Barcode:	9780820332741

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