The Rise of the Representative: Lawmakers and Constituents in Colonial America (Legislative Politics And Policy Making)

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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 let us know 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 The usa and revealing they were a practical response to governing problems, somewhat than an imported model or an attempt to translate abstract philosophy into a concrete reality. Peverill Squire shows there were first of all competing notions of representation, but through the years the pull of the political system moved lawmakers toward behaving as delegates, even in places where they were at first intended to operate as trustees. By taking a look at the rules governing who could vote and who could serve, how representatives were apportioned within every colony, how candidates and voters behaved in elections, how expectations regarding their relationship evolved, and how lawmakers in reality behaved, Squire demonstrates that the American political system that emerged following independence used to be strongly rooted in colonial-era developments.
 

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