The evolution of American legislatures [electronic resource] : colonies, territories, and states, 1619-2009 / Peverill Squire.
Material type: TextSeries: Legislative politics & policy making | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)ISBN:- 9780472028405
- 0472028405
- 328.7309 23
- JK1021 .S69 2012
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?.
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