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The rise of the representative : lawmakers and constituents in colonial America / Peverill Squire.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Squire, Peverill.
- Series:
- Legislative politics & policy making
- Legislative politics and policy making series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Legislative bodies--United States--History.
- Legislative bodies.
- Legislative bodies--United States--States--History.
- Legislators--United States--History.
- Legislators.
- History.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Representation is integral to the study of legislatures, yet virtually no attention has been given to how representative assemblies developed and what that process might tell us about how the relationship between the representative and the represented evolved. The Rise of the Representative corrects that omission by tracing the development of representative assemblies in colonial America and revealing they were a practical response to governing problems, rather than an imported model or an attempt to translate abstract philosophy into a concrete reality. Peverill Squire shows there were initially competing notions of representation, but over time the pull of the political system moved lawmakers toward behaving as delegates, even in places where they were originally intended to operate as trustees. By looking at the rules governing who could vote and who could serve, how representatives were apportioned within each colony, how candidates and voters behaved in elections, how expectations regarding their relationship evolved, and how lawmakers actually behaved, Squire demonstrates that the American political system that emerged following independence was strongly rooted in colonial-era developments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472130399
- 9780472122929
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.9429646
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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