The Making of an American Senate: Reconstitutive Change in Congress, 1787-1841

by Elaine K. Swift

Book Overview

At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the framers created a Senate that was nothing short of an American House of Lords. Until the early 1800s, it remained the insulated, legislatively reactive, and executive-friendly upper chamber the Framers intended. By 1841, however, it had become the distinctly American Senate we recognize today: popularly oriented, legislatively proactive, and often independent of executive influence. The Making of an American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047210702X
• ISBN13: 9780472107025
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"