A history of American legislatures, 1619-2024 /
"Peverill Squire demonstrates that we can trace an (almost) uninterrupted path from that first assembly in Virginia in 1619 to the contemporary Virginia General Assembly, and to the U.S. Congress and the other forty-nine state legislatures. He presents a concise yet comprehensive history of Ame...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
[2026]
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| Series: | Studies in constitutional democracy.
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| Summary: | "Peverill Squire demonstrates that we can trace an (almost) uninterrupted path from that first assembly in Virginia in 1619 to the contemporary Virginia General Assembly, and to the U.S. Congress and the other forty-nine state legislatures. He presents a concise yet comprehensive history of American legislatures covering their more than four-hundred-year existence. Squire does not examine any one type of legislature in isolation because colonial, national, state, and territorial bodies all contributed to the developmental process. Accordingly, the book's chapters examine discrete legislative topics rather than historical eras"-- Provided by the publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780826223500 0826223508 |