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For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress-even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote.
Beginning with the women's suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper deftly...
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In the 1830s slavery was so deeply entrenched that it could not even be discussed in Congress, which had enacted a "gag rule" to ensure that anti-slavery petitions would be summarily rejected. This stirring book chronicles the parliamentary battle to bring "the peculiar institution" into the national debate, a battle that some historians have called "the Pearl Harbor of the slavery controversy." The campaign to make slavery officially and respectably...
6) Congress
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This book explains how senators and representatives are elected to Congress, how Congress makes the country's laws, and who the leaders of Congress are.
12) The Congress
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Explores what the United States Congress is, what it does, and what daily life is like for senators and representatives.
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Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig investigates the most vexing problem in American democracy: how money corrupts our nation's politics, and the critical campaign to stop it.
In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign, finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, trust in our government has reached an all-time...
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The aim of every political institution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess the most wisdom to disern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society, and in the next place, to take the most effectual precuations for keeping them virtuous while they continue to hold their public trust.
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Follows two U.S. Congressmen through two days of work as legislators, committee members, investigators, case workers, communicators, and politicians. Explores the historical and constitutional developments and the philosophy figuring in the evolution of this body. Defines the specific functions and activities of the two Houses.
19) The Capitol
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Known today as "the other speaker at Gettysburg," Edward Everett had a distinguished and illustrative career at every level of American politics from the 1820s through the Civil War. In this new biography, Matthew Mason argues that Everett's extraordinarily well-documented career reveals a complex man whose shifting political opinions, especially on the topic of slavery, illuminate the nuances of Northern Unionism. In the case of Everett--who once...