Correspondence: First Session: June - August 1789 (16) - Couverture rigide

Bickford, Charlene Bangs

 
9780801871610: Correspondence: First Session: June - August 1789 (16)

Synopsis

Three new volumes in this acclaimed series present letters written by and to members of the First Federal Congress and communications from other informed individuals at the seat of government in New York City by 1789. The letters bring the official record to life by providing details about the political process through which Congress began to accomplish its daunting agenda by establishing the first federal revenue system, fleshing out the executive and judicial branches outlined in the Constitution, drafting the Bill of Rights, and beginning to tackle the divisive issue of locating the permanent federal capital. The documents supply a rich source of information about the members' opinions on issues, lives in New York and concerns about their distant families, and the services they provided for constituents, as well as constituent opinions about issues. They also make available for the first time in English the frank and insightful letters of the French minister on the subject of the new federal government.

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À propos de l?auteur

Charlene Bangs Bickford is the director and coeditor of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791.

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  080184178X ISBN 13 :  9780801841781
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992
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