Documentary History of First Federal Congress of United States of - Correspondence: First Session, September - November 1789

Informationen zum Autor Helen E. Veit is associate editor of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791; Charlene Bangs Bickford is director and co-editor of DHFF; Kenneth R. Bowling is co-editor of the DHFFC; and William C. diGiacomantonio is assistant editor of the DHFFC. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This volume presents 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. They bring the official record to life by providing details about the political process.

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

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• Authors: Charlene Bangs Bickford, Charlene Bangs (The George Washington University) Bickford, United States Congress, United States Congress
• Assisted by: Bickford (Editor), Charlene Bangs Bickford (Editor), Charlene Bangs (The George Washington University) Bickford (Editor), Bowling (Editor), Kenneth R. Bowling (Editor), Digiacomantonio (Editor), William Charles Digiacomantonio (Editor), United States Congress (Editor), Helen E. Veit (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2004
• EAN: 9780801871627
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7162-7
• No. of pages: 696
• Series: Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791; Documentary History of the Fir; Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791; Documentary History of the Fir
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, HISTORY / United States / General, History - U.S.