| Description |
xii, 420 pages, 16 numbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A young immigrant from England -- Repression, prison, and politics -- A race for Congress and church discipline -- An election win and a nationwide campaign of vilification -- The committee : exclusion or expulsion? -- Exclusion and its aftermath -- Immigrant, socialist, newspaperman, political boss -- A term in the house, the Milwaukee leader, and the coming of the Great War -- America at war, repression, and suppressing the leader -- Elections, indictments, and the Chicago Trial -- Committee hearings and an unsurprising exclusion -- A second exclusion, the Supreme Court, and a return to the house -- A young prince in Harlem and a neighborhood Civil Rights Movement -- A combative house member, Powell amendments, and notoriety -- A political prosecution, a failed purge, and a new committee chairman -- A productive but willful chairman and seeds of his fall -- Bringing Adam down -- Exclusion and a special election -- A historic Supreme Court decision -- Powell v. McCormack a half-century later -- The congressional experience. |
| Summary |
"Robert M. Lichtman provides a history of congressional exclusion and expulsion cases. Lichtman offers an investigation of the constitutional issues concerning permissible and impermissible grounds for excluding a member-elect or expelling a member from the Congress. This book begins with a review of the numerous congressional exclusion and expulsion cases in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before focusing on the stories of the last three members-elect to be excluded from Congress: a Mormon, a socialist, and an African American, each excluded notwithstanding election by the voters. Brigham H. Roberts was a Utah Mormon whose exclusion from the House of Representatives in 1900 was fueled by a nationwide anti-Mormon campaign waged by William Randolph Hearst and his newspaper empire, a controversy centered on the issue of polygamy. Victor L. Berger, a Socialist Party leader and editor of an antiwar Milwaukee newspaper during World War I, was elected to the House despite the efforts of the Wilson administration to derail his campaign by indicting him under the Espionage Act; he was excluded in 1919 and again in 1920. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the House of Representatives from 1945 until his exclusion in 1967. In Powell v. McCormack, the Supreme Court ruled that Powell's exclusion by the House violated the Constitution"-- From the publisher's description. |
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United States. Congress. House -- Expulsion -- History -- 20th century.
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African American legislators -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century.
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Mormons -- United States -- Political activities -- History -- 20th century.
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Socialists -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry), 1857-1933.
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Berger, Victor L., 1860-1929.
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Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972.
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Berger, Victor L., 1860-1929. (OCoLC)fst00301951
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Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972. (OCoLC)fst01898943
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Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry), 1857-1933. (OCoLC)fst00034119
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United States. Congress. House. (OCoLC)fst00536930
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Excommunication. (OCoLC)fst00917737
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Socialists -- Political activity.
(OCoLC)fst01123762
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780700632725 (hardcover) |
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0700632727 (hardcover) |
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9780700632732 (electronic book) |
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