Author: John AggPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 946
Book Description
Proceedings and debates of the convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to propose amendments to the constitution
Author: John AggReports of the Heads of Departments to the Governor of Pennsylvania, in Pursuance of the Law for the Fiscal Year Ending ...
Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
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Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
The Realignment of Pennsylvania Politics Since 1960
Author: Renée M. LamisPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271085770
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The political party system in the United States has periodically undergone major realignments at various critical junctures in the country’s history. The Civil War boosted the Republican Party’s fortunes and catapulted it into majority status at the national level, a status that was further solidified during the Populist realignment in the 1890s. Starting in the 1930s, however, Roosevelt’s New Deal reversed the parties’ fortunes, bringing the Democratic Party back to national power, and this realignment was further modified by the “culture wars” beginning in the mid-1960s. Each of these realignments occasioned shifts in the electorate’s support for the major parties, and they were superimposed on each other in a way that did not negate entirely the consequences of the preceding realignments. The story of realignment is further complicated by the variations that occurred within individual states whose own particular political legacies, circumstances, and personalities resulted in modulations and modifications of the patterns playing out at the national level. In this book, Renée Lamis investigates how Pennsylvania experienced this series of realignments, with special attention to the period since 1960. She uses a wealth of data from a wide variety of sources to produce an analysis that allows her to trace the evolution of electoral behavior in the Keystone State in a narrative that is accessible to a broad range of readers. Her account helps explain why Senator Arlen Specter was reelected whereas Senator Rick Santorum was not, and why Pennsylvania Republicans have been highly successful in major statewide elections in an era when Democratic presidential standard-bearers have regularly carried the state. Overall, her book constitutes a gold mine of information and interpretation for political junkies as well as scholars who want to know more about how national-level politics plays out within individual states.
Pennsylvania High-speed Maglev Project, the Pennsylvania Project of Magnetic Levitation, Transportation Technology Deployment Program
Author: Pennsylvania County Data Book
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Category : Clearfield County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Author: John J. HarePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027108197X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Established in 1684, over a century before the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court is the oldest appellate court in North America. This balanced, comprehensive history of the Court examines over three centuries of legal proceedings and cases before the body, the controversies and conflicts with which it dealt, and the impact of its decisions and of the case law its justices created Introduced by constitutional scholar Ken Gormley, this volume describes the Supreme Court’s structure and powers and focuses at length on the Court’s work in deciding notable cases of constitutional law, civil rights, torts, criminal law, labor law, and administrative law. Through three sections, “The Structure and Powers of the Supreme Court,” “Decisional Law of the Supreme Court,” and “Reporting Supreme Court Decisions,” the contributors address the many ways in which the Court and its justices have shaped life and law in Pennsylvania and beyond. They consider how it has adjudicated new and complex issues arising from some of the most notable events and tragedies in American history, including the struggle for religious liberty in colonial Pennsylvania, the Revolutionary War, slavery, the Johnstown Flood, the Homestead Steel Strike and other labor conflicts, both World Wars, and, more recently, the dramatic rise of criminal procedural rights and the expansion of tort law. Featuring an afterword by Chief Justice Saylor and essays by leading jurists, deans, law and history professors, and practicing attorneys, this fair-minded assessment of the Court is destined to become a criterion volume for lawmakers, scholars, and anyone interested in legal history in the Keystone State and the United States.
Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval ...
Author: United States. Department of the InteriorPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Pennsylvania
Author: Scott IngramPublisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 9780836851205
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Illustrations and text present the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, and social life and customs of Pennsylvania, which boasted the first hospital in the United States.
Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania
Author: Samuel HazardPublisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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