Inventing Congress

Inventing Congress
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Publisher : Ohio University Press
Total Pages : 328
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Book Synopsis Inventing Congress by : Kenneth R. Bowling

Download or read book Inventing Congress written by Kenneth R. Bowling and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing Congress collects the best available scholarship on the First Federal Congress, revisiting the record from a perspective of two hundred years. Fresh, informative, and enlightening, the essays touch on some of the formidable challenges facing the leaders of the new republic. The papers collected in Inventing Congress originated in two conferences held in 1994 and 1995 sponsored by the United States Capitol Historical Society in its series, "Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789-1801."


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