Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791

Debates in the House of Representatives: Third Session: December 1790-March 1791 Volume 14
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-8018-5015-8
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 1000 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 1442 g

Reihe: Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791

Volume XIV of this widely acclaimed series takes us to the third session of Congress in December 1790, when for the first time under the new Constitution Congress took up quarters at Philadelphia. House and Senate met in cramped Congress Hall, which, in tacit comment on the fragility of the new federal government, the nearby Pennsylvania State House overshadowed.

During this session Congress debated the federal courts, state militias and the U.S. military, the postal system, navigation bills, and other issues fundamental to the new order—which had already begun to raise suspicions. The Virginia delegation denounced federal assumption of state debts. Congress heatedly discussed Alexander Hamilton's proposed national bank—including whether the Constitution implied federal authority to establish one. Congress followed the secretary of the treasury in placing an excise tax on distilled spirits, a measure that soon led to open rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Congress, United States

Bickford, Charlene Bangs

Bowling, Kenneth R

Veit, Helen E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Intriduction
Sources: Third Session
Newspaper Reprinting of First Federal Congress Debates
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Symbols
Members of the House of Representatives
Chairmen of the Committee of the Whole House
Third Session House Bills
Third Session Senate Bills
Subjects Debated in the House of Representatives as Reported by the Newspapers

Debates in the House of Representatives, Third Session
December 1790
January 1791
February 1791
March 1791
Biographies of Members of the First Federal Congress
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Virginia

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Veit, Helen E
Helen E. Veit is an associate editor of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789–1791.

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

Bowling, Kenneth R
Kenneth R. Bowling is the coeditor of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789–1791

William C. diGiacomantonio is assistant editor of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791. Kenneth R. Bowling serves as co-editor of the DHFFC and is the author of The Creation of Washington, D.C.: The Idea and Location of the American Capital. Charlene Bangs Bickford, director and co-editor of DHFFC, is the coauthor with Kenneth Bowling of Birth of a Nation: The First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 Helen E. Veit, associate editor of the DHFFC co-edited volumes four through six, Legislative Histories, and volume nine, The Diary of William Maclay and Other Notes on Senate Debates.