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  • The Evolution of American Legislatures

    Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619-2009

    de Peverill Squire ...
    Series series Legislative Politics And Policy Making
    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 ... Leer más

    $30.29 USD

  • A History of American Legislatures, 1619-2024

    de Peverill Squire ...
    Series series Studies in Constitutional Democracy
    What might the members of the first Virginia assembly think if they could visit today’s Virginia House of Delegates? The air-conditioning and diversity of the current membership surely would surprise them, but would the legislative process itself strike them as odd?In his latest work, Peverill Squire demonstrates that the way the modern legislature goes about its work would seem familiar to ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Why States Matter

    An Introduction to State Politics

    de Gary F. Moncrief, Peverill Squire ...
    When it comes to voting, taxes, environmental regulations, social services, education, criminal justice, political parties, property rights, gun control, marriage and a whole host of other modern American issues, the state in which a citizen resides makes a difference. That idea—that the political decisions made by those in state-level offices are of tremendous importance to the lives of people ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Reforming Legislatures

    American Voters and State Ballot Measures, 1792-2020

    de Peverill Squire ...
    Series series Studies in Constitutional Democracy
    Winner of the 2025 Virginia Gray Book Award, APSA Section 22: State Politics and PolicyLegislatures are ubiquitous in the American political experience. First created in Virginia in 1619, they have existed continuously ever since. Indeed, they were established in even the most unlikely of places, notably in sparsely populated frontier settlements, and functioned as the focal point of every ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • State Legislatures Today

    Politics under the Domes

    de Gary Moncrief, Peverill Squire ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Rise of the Representative

    Lawmakers and Constituents in Colonial America

    de Peverill Squire ...
    Series series Legislative Politics And Policy Making
    Representation is integral to the study of legislatures, yet virtually no attention has been given to how representative assemblies developed and what that process might tell us about how the relationship between the representative and the represented evolved. The Rise of the Representative corrects that omission by tracing the development of representative assemblies in colonial America and ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900

    de Peverill Squire ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $50.39 USD

  • The Iowa Caucuses And The Presidential Nominating Process

    de Peverill Squire ...
    This book aims to better explain the Iowa caucuses and presents updated versions of the papers presented at a Shambaugh conference, "First in the Nation: Iowa and the Nomination Process," held at the University of Iowa, February 7-8, 1988. ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

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  • The People's Constitution

    200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union

    de John F. Kowal, Wilfred U. Codrington ...
    The 233-year story of how the American people have made an imperfect constitution—the product of compromises and an artifact of its time—more democratic."A rigorous yet accessible history of how the U.S. Constitution has been made 'more democratic, more inclusive, and more responsive to the needs of a changing country' through its amendments. . . . Incisive character profiles, brisk historical ... Leer más

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  • From Jim Crow to Civil Rights

    The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

    de Michael J. Klarman ...
    A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations. In a highly provocative interpretation of the decision's connection to the civil rights movement, Klarman argues that ... Leer más

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  • The People’s Constitution

    200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union

    de John F. Kowal ...
    The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the product of compromises and an artifact of its time—and made it more democraticWho wrote the Constitution? That’s obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. The ... Leer más

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  • The Farm Press, Reform and Rural Change, 1895-1920

    de John J. Fry ...
    Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    This project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on readers in town and cities, it examines Midwestern farmers. It also contributes to the "new rural history" by exploring the ideas of Hal Barron and others that country people selectively adapted the advice given to them by reformers. ... Leer más

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