Download or read book Lobby Investigation March 12 14 18 21 1930 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lobby Investigation October 15 18 21 23 1929 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lobby Investigation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates trade association efforts to influence U.S. tariff policy.
Download or read book Index of Congressional Committee Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Library and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index of Congressional Committee Hearings not Confidential in Character Prior to January 3 1935 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Library and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CIS US Congressional Committee Hearings Index 69th Congress 73rd Congress Dec 1925 1934 5 v written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Repealing National Prohibition written by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the political reaction against the 18th Amendment, a response that led to its reversal 14 years later by the 21st Amendment. This work uses archival evidence to examine the liquor ban and to draw attention to the bi-partisan movement led by the Association Against Prohibition Amendment.
Download or read book A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31 1942 written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosopher Lobbyist written by Mordecai Lee and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of John Deweys leadership of the progressive Peoples Lobby. John Dewey (18591952) was a preeminent American philosopher who is remembered today as the founder of what is called child-centered or progressive education. In The Philosopher-Lobbyist, Mordecai Lee tells the largely forgotten story of Deweys effort to influence public opinion and promote democratic citizenship. Based on Deweys 1927 book The Public and Its Problems, the Peoples Lobby was a trailblazing nonprofit agency, an early forerunner of the now common public interest lobbying group. It used multiple forms of mass communication, grassroots organizing, and lobbying to counteract the many special interest groups and lobbies that seemed to be dominating policymaking in Congress and in the White House. During the 1930s, Dewey and the Peoples Lobby criticized the New Deal as too conservative and championed a social democratic alternative, including a more progressive tax system, government ownership of natural monopolies, and state operation of the railroad system. While its impact on historical developments was small, the story of the Peoples Lobby is an important reminder of a historical road not traveled and a policy agenda that was not adopted, but could have been.
Download or read book Congressional Committee Hearings an Index written by United States. Congress. House. Library and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index to Congressional Committee Hearing in the Library of the United States House of Representatives written by United States. Congress. House. Library and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Randolph Haynes written by Tom Sitton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four decades, John Randolph Haynes (1853-1937) was in the forefront of social-reform crusades and political action in Los Angeles and California, with his most important legacies in the fields of direct legislation and public ownership of utilities. He was the individual most responsible for the adoption of the initiative, referendum, and recall in Los Angeles in 1902 and in California in 1911. His vigilant protection of these measures thereafter and his promotion of direct legislation throughout the nation earned him the title "father of direct legislation" in California. From 1910 until his death, Haynes's chief priority was to shape the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power into a glowing example of public ownership of utilities. Today, LADWP operates the world's largest municipal water and electrical power generation and distribution system, continuing to serve the needs of an ever-growing region whose extent even Haynes could not have envisaged. In many ways, Haynes is an enigma. He was not a typical progressive, having amassed a fortune in his medical practice and in real estate, mining, and other capitalistic ventures. However, he spent a large portion of his wealth to promote a form of gradual, democratic socialism in the United States. Haynes advocated the transformation of the nation's economy and government, yet he campaigned for morality laws that limited personal freedom. Haynes's motivation was not social status or money, both of which he had before his conversion to social reform. Nor was it political power: he never ran for office (except as a temporary freeholder) or created a personal political machine. His primary motive was a perhaps arrogant yet honest desire to aid in the creation of a more just society by improving the living and working conditions of the less fortunate. In one way or another, Haynes participated in all the major social and political events that shaped California and Los Angeles in a most dynamic era of their development. In a broader sense, Haynes's life serves as a yardstick with which to measure other progressives of his time and as a key for understanding the motivation of those idealists who helped shape our present political institutions.
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Download or read book Alcohol Reform and Society written by Jack S. Blocker Jr. and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1979-10-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Blocker's collection of nine essays represents one of the most impressive moves toward a comprehensive examination of the liquor issue. The collection attempts to evaluate the role of alcohol in society, examine the origins of the temperance and prohibition movements, and analyze the organized movement for repeal.
Download or read book Explicit and Authentic Acts written by David E. Kyvig and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In time for the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, David Kyvig completed an Afterword to his landmark study of the process of amending the US Constitution. The Afterword discusses the many amendments, such those requiring a balanced federal budget or limiting the terms of members of Congress, that have been proposed since the book was originally published and why they failed of passage. At a time when prominent scholars and other public figures have called for a constitutional convention to write a new constitution, arguing that our current system of governance is unsustainable Kyvig reminds us of the high hurdles the founders created to amending the constitution and how they have served the country well, preventing the amendment process from being used by one faction to serve the passions of the moment. In his farewell address, President Washington reminded his audience that the Constitution, "till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all." He regarded the Constitution as a binding document worthy of devout allegiance, but also believed that it contains a clear and appropriate procedure for its own reform. David Kyvig's illuminating study provides the most complete and insightful history of that amendment process and its fundamental importance for American political life. Over the course of the past two centuries, more than 10,000 amendments have been proposed by the method stipulated in Article V of the Constitution. Amazingly, only 33 have garnered the required two-thirds approval from both houses of Congress, and only 27 were ultimately ratified into law by the states. Despite their small number, those amendments have revolutionized American government while simultaneously legitimizing and preserving its continued existence. Indeed, they have dramatically altered the relationship between state and federal authority, as well as between government and private citizens. Kyvig reexamines the creation and operation of Article V, illuminating the process and substance of each major successful and failed effort to change the formal structure, duties, and limits of the federal government. He analyzes in detail the Founders' intentions; the periods of great amendment activity during the 1790s, 1860s, 1910s, and 1960s; and the considerable consequences of amendment failure involving slavery, alcohol prohibition, child labor, New Deal programs, school prayer, equal rights for women, abortion, balanced budgets, term limits, and flag desecration.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Documents of the Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from to written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on with total page 3208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
