Recreating the American Republic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development

From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Recreating the American Republic: Rides of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, by Charles A. Kromkowski.

The most critical problem of representative government is how the public can hold their representatives accountable. Kromkowski sheds light on the relationship between representatives and their constituents by examining the dramatic and complex story of apportionment during three critical periods of American history: the Revolution, the Constitutinal Convention, and the Civil War. Most scholarship on apportionment centers on the landmark Supreme Court ...

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