The evolution of American legislatures : colonies, territories, and states, 1619-2009 /
Squire, Peverill.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tracing how American legislatures changed over time -- The colonial assemblies and the beginnings of American legislatures -- The original state legislatures -- The missing link: territorial legislatures -- The odd evolutionary cases -- The institutionalizing of state legislatures in the nineteenth century -- The professionalizing of state legislatures since 1900 -- Where does legislative evolution go from here?.
United States. Congress
Legislative bodies
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