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The House and Senate in the 1790s - Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development (Hardcover, 1)
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The House and Senate in the 1790s - Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development (Hardcover, 1)
Series: Perspective History Of Congres
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Amid the turbulent swirl of foreign intrigue, external and internal
threats to the young nation’s existence, and the domestic
partisan wrangling of the 1790s, the United States Congress
solidified its role as the national legislature. The ten essays in
The House and Senate in the 1790s demonstrate the mechanisms by
which this bicameral legislature developed its institutional
identity. The first essay sets the scene for the institutional
development of Congress by examining its constitutional origins and
the efforts of the Founders to empower the new national
legislature. The five following essays focus on two related
mechanisms -- petitioning and lobbying -- by which citizens and
private interests communicated with national lawmakers. Although
scholars tend to see lobbying as a later nineteenth-century
development, the papers presented here clearly demonstrate the
existence of lobbyists and lobbying in the 1790s. The final four
papers examine other aspects of the institutional development of
the House and the Senate, including the evolution of political
parties and congressional leadership. The essays in this
collection, the third volume in the series Perspectives on the
History of Congress, 1789-1801, originated in a series of
conferences held by the United States Capitol Historical Society
from 1994 to 2001.
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