Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791: Petition Histories and Non-Legislative Official Documents, Vol. 8
The petition histories in volume VIII throw light on the public's expectations of its new federal government and illustrate how the broad national concerns Americans brought before Congress in its first years of operation continue to resonate in the national political dialogue. The second part of this volume provides a wealth of new source materials on many issues of congressional protocol and procedures, such as rules, printing, staffing, a library for Congress, journal and record keeping,...
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Awarded the Thomas Jefferson Prize by the Society for History in the Federal Government."This unique eyewitness account of the launching of the government under the Constitution is also one of the great American diaries, consistently entertaining and compulsively readable." — Richard B. Bernstein, Constitution. Booknews Presents petitions to the First Federal Congress of the U.S. government, organized by the following topics: Algerine prisoners, arts and sciences, bankruptcy law, Confederation Congress, executive branch, fisheries, judicial branch, lands, manufacturing subsidies, militia duty exemptions, post office, public credit, public health and morality, revenue system, and seat of government location. Also presents a number of nonlegislative official documents, regarding such topics as amendments to the constitution, commercial relations with Great Britain, elections, judicial reform, and the eulogy of Benjamin Franklin. The editors' introductions, to the volume itself, each section, and each individual document, place the documents in historical context. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
\ BooknewsPresents petitions to the First Federal Congress of the U.S. government, organized by the following topics: Algerine prisoners, arts and sciences, bankruptcy law, Confederation Congress, executive branch, fisheries, judicial branch, lands, manufacturing subsidies, militia duty exemptions, post office, public credit, public health and morality, revenue system, and seat of government location. Also presents a number of nonlegislative official documents, regarding such topics as amendments to the constitution, commercial relations with Great Britain, elections, judicial reform, and the eulogy of Benjamin Franklin. The editors' introductions, to the volume itself, each section, and each individual document, place the documents in historical context. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
