The evolution of American legislatures
Subtitle: colonies, territories, and states, 1619-2009
By: Peverill Squire
Series: Legislative politics & policy making
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780472118311; 9780472028405
Subjects: States; United States; United States. Congress; Legislative bodies; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tracing how American legislatures changed over time; title: The colonial assemblies and the beginnings of American legislatures; title: The original state legislatures; title: The missing link: territorial legislatures; title: The odd evolutionary cases; title: The institutionalizing of state legislatures in the nineteenth century; title: The professionalizing of state legislatures since 1900; title: Where does legislative evolution go from here?.