Democracy in Session: A History of the Ohio General Assembly

by David M. Gold

For more than 200 years no institution has been more important to the development of the American democratic polity than the state legislature, yet no political institution has been so neglected by historians. Although more lawmaking takes place in the state capitals than in Washington D.C., scholars have lavished their attention on Congress, producing only a handful of histories of state legislatures. Most of those histories have focused on discrete...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821418440
• ISBN13: 9780821418444
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"