Election of United States Senators by the People
Author | : United States. Congress Senate |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1902 |
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Author | : United States. Congress Senate |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1902 |
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Author | : Wendy J. Schiller |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-12-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691163170 |
How U.S. senators were chosen prior to the Seventeenth Amendment—and the consequences of Constitutional reform From 1789 to 1913, U.S. senators were not directly elected by the people—instead the Constitution mandated that they be chosen by state legislators. This radically changed in 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving the public a direct vote. Electing the Senate investigates the electoral connections among constituents, state legislators, political parties, and U.S. senators during the age of indirect elections. Wendy Schiller and Charles Stewart find that even though parties controlled the partisan affiliation of the winning candidate for Senate, they had much less control over the universe of candidates who competed for votes in Senate elections and the parties did not always succeed in resolving internal conflict among their rank and file. Party politics, money, and personal ambition dominated the election process, in a system originally designed to insulate the Senate from public pressure. Electing the Senate uses an original data set of all the roll call votes cast by state legislators for U.S. senators from 1871 to 1913 and all state legislators who served during this time. Newspaper and biographical accounts uncover vivid stories of the political maneuvering, corruption, and partisanship—played out by elite political actors, from elected officials, to party machine bosses, to wealthy business owners—that dominated the indirect Senate elections process. Electing the Senate raises important questions about the effectiveness of Constitutional reforms, such as the Seventeenth Amendment, that promised to produce a more responsive and accountable government.
Author | : David Turpie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Elections |
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Author | : George Rothwell Brown |
Publisher | : Maclachan Bell Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1443703443 |
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author | : Donald A. Ritchie |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674042786 |
Donald Ritchie examines the lives of early, self-styled congressional journalists such as Horace Greeley, Emily Briggs, Benjamin Perley Poore, Jane Grey Swisshelm, Horace White, James G. Blaine, and others who were positioned in the hub of government when the Civil War, the purchase of Alaska, the Crédit Mobilier scandal, and the Johnson impeachment hearings were making front-page news. Rich in anecdote, this lively book illuminates an important era of journalism and American history. The nascent issues of censorship, right to privacy, and conflict of interest that it describes are still very much with us.
Author | : United States. Congress |
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Total Pages | : 1084 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Law |
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Author | : Earl John Mohn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1909 |
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Author | : Woodrow Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Executive power |
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Author | : John V. Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : United States |
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Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1893 |
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