The Rise of the Representative: Lawmakers and Constituents in Colonial America

by Peverill Squire

Representation is integral to the study of legislatures, yet virtually no attention has been given to how representative assemblies developed and what that process might tell us about how the relationship between the representative and the represented evolved. The Rise of the Representative corrects that omission by tracing the development of representative assemblies in colonial America and revealing they were a practical response to governing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472130390
• ISBN13: 9780472130399
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.9"