The Invention of the United States Senate

by Daniel Wirls and Stephen Wirls

Book Overview

The invention of the United States Senate was the most complicated and confounding achievement of the Constitutional Convention. Although much has been written on various aspects of Senate history, this is the first book to examine and link the three central components of the Senate's creation: the theoretical models and institutional precedents leading up to the Constitutional Convention; the work of the Constitutional Convention on both the composition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801874394
• ISBN13: 9780801874390
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"