| Description |
xix, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm. |
| Series |
Student's guide to the U.S. government series ; v. 2 |
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Student's guide to the U.S. government series ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-368) and index. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Reader's guide -- About the advisory editor -- Preface -- Historical milestones of the U.S. Congress, 1789-2008 : a timeline -- pt. 1. Essays -- Members of Congress : who gets elected? -- Who elects them? -- The way Congress works : how does an idea become a law? -- Who is running America, Congress or the President? -- |
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pt. 2. Congress A to Z -- Abscam -- Ad hoc committees -- Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) -- African Americans in Congress -- Decision makers : Barack Obama (1961- ) -- The Albany Plan of Union -- Amending the Constitution -- Justice for all : the Equal Rights Amendment -- Spotlight : Amendments not ratified by the states -- Appropriations bills -- Army-McCarthy hearings -- Articles of Confederation -- Asian Americans in Congress -- Decision makers : Patsy Mink (1927-2002) -- Balanced Budget Amendment -- Point/counterpoint : for and against a balanced budget amendment -- Bicameralism -- Bill of Rights -- Bills, Private -- Bipartisanship -- Calendars, House of Representatives -- Calendars, Senate -- Campaign finance -- Point/counterpoint : should Congressional elections be publicly financed? -- Capitol -- Spotlight : the Capitol Police -- Capitol, Architect of the -- Spotlight : Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) -- Capitol subways -- Caucuses -- Censure -- Census -- Checks and balances -- Citizenship and naturalization -- Spotlight : who is a citizen? -- Justice for all : Congressional authority over aliens -- Civil Rights Act (1964) -- Civil rights issues and lobbyists -- Classes of Senators -- Cloakroom -- Spotlight : smoking in Congress -- Cloture -- Commerce clause -- Committees -- Spotlight : loss of committee positions -- Conference committees -- Confirmation power of the Senate -- Congress and commerce -- Congress, Constitutional origins of -- Decision makers : Robert C. Byrd (1917- ) -- Congressional black caucus -- Decision makers : Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) -- Congressional Hispanic caucus -- Decision makers : Baltasar Corrada (1935- ) and Herman Badillo (1939- ) -- Congressional immunity -- Congressional investigations -- Spotlight : politics and Congressional investigations -- Congressional office buildings -- Congressional pay and benefits -- Spotlight : the Madison Amendment -- Congressional Record -- Congressional Research Service -- Congressional staff -- Congressional travel allowances -- Congressional voting methods -- Connecticut Compromise -- Decision makers : Roger Sherman (1721-1793) -- Constituents and Congress -- Constitution of the United States -- Constitutional Amendments affecting the Presidency -- Constitutional Convention -- Contempt of Congress -- Continental Congresses -- Declaration of Independence -- District of Columbia -- Elections, House of Representatives -- Decision makers : Henry Clay (1777-1852) -- Elections, Senatorial -- Spotlight : disputed Senate elections -- Electoral college and electors -- Ethics, Congressional -- Exclusion of members of Congress -- Expressed powers -- Federalism -- Federalist, The -- Decision makers : James Madison (1751-1836) -- Filibuster -- Foreign policy powers -- Point/counterpoint : should Congressional leaders conduct foreign policy? -- Franking -- Gavel -- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) -- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) -- Hispanic Americans in Congress -- Decision makers : Romualdo Pacheco (1831-1899) -- House of Representatives -- Decision makers : Jeanette Rankin (1880-1973) -- How a bill becomes law -- Impeachment power -- Spotlight : Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) and Bill Clinton (1946- ) -- Impeachment rules, Senate -- Implied powers -- Impoundment -- Interns, Congressional -- Iran-Contra hearings -- Iraq War Resolution (2002) -- Spotlight : no unlimited force -- Joint committees -- Joint session -- Judicial review -- Decision makers : Marbury v. Madison -- Legislative Reorganization Act (1946) -- Library of Congress -- Spotlight : Thomas Jefferson's library -- Limited government -- Line-item veto -- Lobbying and Congress -- Mace -- Majority leader -- Media and Congress -- Midterm elections -- Minority leader -- Missouri Compromise -- New Jersey Plan -- Decision makers : William Paterson (1745-1806) -- New states, Admission of -- Nineteenth Amendment (1920) -- Non-voting members of Congress -- Oath of office, Congressional -- Pages, Congressional -- Parliamentarian -- Party whips -- Decision makers : Joe Cannon (1836-1926) -- Patronage -- Justice for all : rise and fall of the spoils system -- Political parties and Congress -- Popular sovereignty -- Pork-barrel spending -- Power of the purse -- Power to raise an army -- Justice for all : the draft or a professional military? -- Power to select the President -- Point/counterpoint : should the electoral college be abolished? -- President and Congress -- Justice for all : Congress and executive privileges -- President pro tempore -- Public interest groups -- Reapportionment -- Redistricting -- Decision makers : the census : who should be counted? -- Rules, House and Senate -- Senate -- Decision makers : Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861) -- Senatorial courtesy -- Seniority system -- Separation of powers -- Sergeant at arms -- Sessions of Congress -- Spotlight : the early Senate -- Seventeenth Amendment (1913) -- Speaker of the House of Representatives -- Decision makers : Nancy Pelosi (1940- ) -- Spoils system -- Supreme Court and Congress -- Justice for all : court packing -- Teapot Dome Scandal -- Television coverage of Congress -- Terms and sessions -- Thirteen Colonies, Settling of the -- Treaty power -- Spotlight : the Kyoto Protocol -- Decision makers : the House and the treaty power -- Two-thirds rule -- Vetoes and veto overrides -- Vice President -- Decision makers : Vice President as tie breaker -- Virginia Plan -- Decision makers : Edmund Randolph (1753-1813) -- Voting Rights Act (1965) -- War powers -- Decision makers : Congress vs. the Vietnam War -- War Powers Resolution (1973) -- Watergate hearings -- Whitewater investigations -- Women in Congress -- Decision makers : Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947- ) -- Zone whips -- |
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pt. 3. Primary source library -- United States Constitution, Article I, Sections 1-7, 1789 -- United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8, 1789 -- United States Constitution, Article II, Sections 2, 3, and 4, 1789 -- South Carolina Electoral Vote Document, 1789 -- Twelfth Amendment, 1804 -- Henry Clay in Support of the War of 1812 -- Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824 -- House Procedure for the Election of John Quincy Adams, 1825 -- Resolution Annexing Texas to the United States, 1845 -- Article of Impeachment Against Andrew Johnson, 1868 -- Congressional Government, 1885 -- Seventeenth Amendment, 1913 -- Point/counterpoint : should the Seventeenth Amendment be repealed? -- Nineteenth Amendment, 1920 -- Citizens Seek Changes in Volstead Act, 1932 -- Prohibition Repealed, 1933 -- Twentieth Amendment, 1933 -- U.S. Declaration of War on Japan, 1941 -- U.S. Declaration of War on Germany, 1941 -- McCarthy Telegram to Truman, 1950 -- Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1954 -- Twenty-Fifth Amendment, 1967 -- War Powers Resolution, 1973 -- Articles of Impeachment Against Richard M. Nixon, 1974 -- Articles of impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton, 1998 -- Letter to President Bush Urging Him to End the War in Iraq, 2007 -- Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, 2007 -- Using primary sources -- Glossary -- Selected bibliography -- General index. |
| Subject |
United States. Congress.
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| Added Author |
Schulman, Bruce J.
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| ISBN |
9780872895546 alkaline paper |
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0872895548 alkaline paper |
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