Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791
Subtitle: Senate Legislative Journal (Documentary ... of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791)
Contributors: United States Congress (Editor); Linda Grant de Pauw (Editor); Charlene Bangs Bickford (Editor); Kenneth R. Bowling (Editor); LaVonne Marlene Siegel (Editor); Helen E. Veit (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 1, 1972
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9780801812804
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Politics / Current Events; 1789-1797; Sources; Politics - Current Events; USA; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Government - Legislative Branch; United States - General; History / United States / General; United States; Politics and government; Legislative journals
First sentence: On 9 April 1789 the New-York Daily Gazette prefaced its first account of the debates of the United States House of Representatives with a deceptively simple statement: "Yesterday the doors of the House of Representatives, were thrown open for the admission of the Citizens."