Charlene Bangs Bickford, Kenneth R Bowling

Birth of the Nation

The Federal Congress, 1789-1791

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Birth of the Nation is the first comprehensive treatment of the work of the critically important Congress which converted the words of the Federal Constitution of 1787 into action and brought to a close the American Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 175mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780945612148
• ISBN-10: 0945612141
• Artikelnr.: 38532862

Autorenporträt

Charlene Bangs Bickford is co-editor and director of the First Federal Congress Project and is former president of the Association for Documentary Editing. Kenneth R. Bowling is co-editor of the First Federal Congress project and has publisheds several articles on the political issues which divided Americans during the decade following the Revolutionary War

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Sessions of the
First Federal Congresses Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 A New Beginning:
Congress Convenes in New York City Chapter 6 Setting Precedent: Organizing
Itself Chapter 7 An Imperial Presidency? Chapter 8 The First Federal
Revenues Chapter 9 Shaping the Executive Branch Chapter 10 Defining the
Judiciary Chapter 11 The Bill of Rights Chapter 12 Locating the United
States Capital Chapter 13 Funding the Revolutionary War Debt Chapter 14 The
Compromise of 1790 and its Reaffirmation in 1791 Chapter 15 "Westward the
Course of Empire Takes Its Way" Chapter 16 The Senate and Foreign Policy
Chapter 17 Political Parties in the First Congress Chapter 18 Conclusion
Chapter 19 Notes Chapter 20 Members of the Senate and House of
Representatives Chapter 21 Index