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British and American Foundings of Parliamentary Science, 1774-1801 (Paperback)
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British and American Foundings of Parliamentary Science, 1774-1801 (Paperback)
Series: International Relations and the European Atlantic World, 1660-1830
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Upon declaring independence from Britain in July 1776, the United
States Congress urgently needed to establish its credentials as a
legitimate government that could credibly challenge the claims of
the British Crown. In large measure this legitimacy rested upon
setting in place the procedural and legal structures upon which all
claims of governmental authority rest. In this book, Aschenbrenner
explores the ways in which the nascent United States rapidly built
up a system of parliamentary procedure that borrowed heavily from
the British government it sought to replace. In particular, he
looks at how, over the course of twenty-five years, Thomas
Jefferson drew upon the writings of the Chief Clerk of the British
Parliament, John Hatsell, to frame and codify American
parliamentary procedures. Published in 1801, Jefferson's Manual of
Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United
States presents rules, instances, citations and commentary as
modern readers would expect them to appear, quoting Hatsell and
other British authorities numerous times. If the two nations
suffered any unpleasant relations in the First War for American
Independence - Aschenbrenner concludes - one would be hard pressed
to detect it from Jefferson's Manual. Indeed, direct comparison of
the House of Commons and the Continental Congress shows remarkable
similarities between the ambitions of the two institutions as they
both struggled to adapt their political processes to meet the
changing national and international circumstances of the
late-eighteenth century.
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