Bøker av Kenneth R. Bowling

In the 1790s, the United States Congress solidified its role as the national legislature. The ten essays in this work show the mechanisms by which this bicameral legislature developed its institutional identity.

Scholars today take for granted the existence of a "wall of separation" dividing the three branches of the federal government.

On March 4, 1789, New York City's church bells pealed, cannons fired, and flags snapped in the wind to celebrate the date set for the opening of the First Federal Congress.