| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Series |
International Relations and the European Atlantic World, 1660-1830 |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: 'a manufacturer making tools to work with'; 1 'Orders indispensably necessary'; 2 'This John Milton deserves hanging' ; 3 'The eternal rules of justice and reason ought to be a law'; 4 'I have begun a sketch'; 5 'The average price of peace and war'; 6 'The tactics of political assemblies form the science'; 7 'This beautiful political order' ; Appendix A: citing Bentham's Essay on Political Tactics; Appendix B: the Parliamentary Model and the Standard Model (excerpts); Index |
| Summary |
"Upon declaring independence from Britain in July 1776, the United States Congress urgently needed to establish its credentials as a legitimate government that could credibly challenge the claims of the British Crown. In large measure this legitimacy rested upon setting in place the procedural and legal structures upon which all claims of governmental authority rest. In this book, Aschenbrenner explores the ways in which the nascent United States rapidly built up a system of parliamentary procedure that borrowed heavily from the British government it sought to replace. In particular, he looks at how, over the course of twenty-five years, Thomas Jefferson drew upon the writings of the Chief Clerk of the British Parliament, John Hatsell, to frame and codify American parliamentary procedures. Published in 1801, Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States presents rules, instances, citations and commentary as modern readers would expect them to appear, quoting Hatsell and other British authorities numerous times. If the two nations suffered any unpleasant relations in the First War for American Independence - Aschenbrenner concludes - one would be hard pressed to detect it from Jefferson's Manual. Indeed, direct comparison of the House of Commons and the Continental Congress shows remarkable similarities between the ambitions of the two institutions as they both struggled to adapt their political processes to meet the changing national and international circumstances of the late-eighteenth century."--Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
United States. Congress -- Rules and practice -- History -- 18th century
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Great Britain. Parliament -- Rules and practice -- History -- 18th century
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain. Parliament fast |
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United States. Congress fast |
| Subject |
Parliamentary practice -- History -- 18th century
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Parliamentary practice
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315570051 |
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131557005X |
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