The making of an American Senate
Subtitle: reconstitutive change in Congress, 1787-1841
By: Elaine K. Swift.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: United States. Congress. Senate -- History.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.
Description: The Making of an American Senate is based on extensive qualitative and quantitative research on a variety of primary sources, including records of the Constitutional Convention, congressional records, presidential papers, contemporary newspapers, and the personal papers, diaries, and autobiographies of members of Congress and other political elites. It also employs an array of methods ranging from roll call analysis to factor analysis to content analysis.

This book will engage political scientists concerned with congressional history, institutional change, and the founding of new institutions. It will also interest historians of the Founding Era and the early American Republic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-237) and index.