Author: W. Stull Holt
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Keywords: senate, conduct, foreign, over, relations, struggle, defeated, study, treaties, president
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2000-04
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1584770295
ISBN-13: 9781584770299
Holt, W. Stull. Treaties Defeated by the Senate. A Study of the Struggle Between President and Senate Over the Conduct of Foreign Relations. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1933. vi, [1],328 pp. Reprinted 2000 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-39606. ISBN 1-58477-029-5. Cloth. $65. Beginning with an examination of the Constitutional origin of the conflict between the President and the Senate regarding foreign relations, Holt goes on to discuss the legal and political aspects of U.S. treaty-making from 1789 through the Versailles Treaty in 1919.
Author: Senate Select Committee
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: report, initiated, president, committee, historic, watergate, senate, ervin
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2005-07-26
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0786717092
ISBN-13: 9780786717095
At the moment when the long-concealed identity of the Watergate scandal’s most famous source, Deep Throat, has finally been revealed as former FBI deputy director Mark Felt, it is only appropriate that the historic Senate Select Committee report that helped trigger the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974 should be made available to a new generation. Here it all is: the break-in and cover-up, the wire taps, the dirty campaign tricks, the attempts to improperly influence government agencies, and the ensuing trail of lies and deceptions all laid out in painstaking detail.
Author: Martin B. Gold
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: practice, procedure, senate, amp
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2008-06-27
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0742563057
ISBN-13: 9780742563056
Senate Procedure and Practice is a practical, real-world explanation of the legislative process in the U.S. Senate. Filled with fascinating stories and insights, this book highlights not only why a given rule is in place, but also how it is practiced. Now in its second edition, the book has been updated to discuss the impact the Democratic takeover has had on basic Senate procedures and practices, including much-discussed Rule XXVIII.
Author: Melissa Senate
Publisher: Downtown Press
Keywords: joy, secret
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-11-17
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1439107173
ISBN-13: 9781439107171
IS THE HALF SISTER THAT REBECCA STRANDHAS NEVER MET SHORT? TALL? RICH? POOR? PRETTY?FUNNY? MARRIED? LONELY? HAPPY?...Rebecca is about to find out. The New York City paralegal thought nothing could shake her life off its fast track -- which includes her handsome lawyer boyfriend and their extravagant condo. The shocking revelation that she even has a half sister comes from her dying father, in a hospital bed confession of a long-past summer affair...and now the dad she adores has one last wish: would Rebecca deliver a cache of letters he never sent to his other daughter, Joy Jayhawk, in a tiny
Author: Barbara Sinclair
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: senate, transformation
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1990-08-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0801841100
ISBN-13: 9780801841101
Author: N. O. Kura
Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc
Keywords: states, united, senate
Number of Pages: 277
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 1594545251
ISBN-13: 9781594545252
The Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress, created in Article I, Section 1 of the US Constitution. The Senate has 100 members, who serve for 6-year terms with one-third of the seats up for re-election every two years. Every state has two Senators. Senators were originally elected by state legislatures, but the Seventeenth Amendment to the US Constitution, adopted in 1913, changed the system so that Senators would be elected by the people. The vice-president serves as the presiding officer over the Senate, although he does not serve on any committees and is restricted to voting only i
Author: Colton C. Campbell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: senate, contentious
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2000-12-13
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0742501167
ISBN-13: 9780742501164
