From impotence to omniimpotence: the debate over structuring congress under the New Federal Constitution of 1787 / John P. Kaminski -- Petitioners and their grievances: a view from the First Federal Congress / William C. diGiacomantonio -- Private access and public power: gentility and lobbying in the Early Congress / Jeffrey L. Pasley -- Rites of passage: postal petitioning as a tool of governance in the age of federalism / Richard R. John and Christopher J. Young -- The "practicable sphere" of a republic: western ways of connecting to congress / Marion Nelson Winship -- Contesting the character of the political economy in the early republic: rights and remedies in Chisholm v. Georgia / Christine A. Desan -- The electoral dynamics of ratification: federalist and antifederalist strength and cohesion, 1787-1803 / David J. Siemers -- The special relationship: the senate and the states, 1789-1801 / Terri D. Halperin -- The United States senate in Philadelphia: an institutional history of the 1790s / Richard A. Baker -- The institutional development of the House of Representatives, 1791-1801 / Raymond W. Smock.
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Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1789-1801
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