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Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania, Volume 1, 1682-1709

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's disti...
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Price: $104.95
Pages: 904
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Series: Anniversary Collection
Publication Date: 31 January 2017
ISBN: 9781512817003
Format: eBook
BISACs: HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History of the Americas, HISTORY / Reference
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"This superb biographical dictionary of Pennsylvania legislators provides elaborate accounts of each Pennsylvania lawmaker who served during the period covered by the volume, with detailed scholarly introductions analyzing the makeup of the legislature and the entire lawmaking process. The introductions alone should be required reading for all students of colonial Pennsylvania. . . . The publication of the first two volumes of this series has set a standard by which similar projects must be measured."

Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Illustrations and Maps
Figures and Tables

INTRODUCTION
General Background
Introduction to Volume One

LAWMAKING IN PENNSYLVANIA, 1682-1709: THEMES AND ISSUES
The General Assembly in the Constitutions of Colonial Pennsylvania
Voters and Elections in Colonial Pennsylvania, 1682-1709
Legislative Supremacy and Assembly Procedures, 1682-1709
The House Committees, 1682-1709
Legislation of Pennsylvania, 1682-1709
Pennsylvania and the Three Lower Counties, 1682-1704
The Pennsylvania Quakers and William Penn
Religious Factionalism in Pennsylvania

LEGISLATORS OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1682-1709
Sessions List:
The General Assembly of Pennsylvania, 1682-1709
Officers of the House, 1682-1709
List of House Committees, 1682-1709
Selected Characteristics of the Legislature and Its Representatives

BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS
Guide to the Biographical Entries
Short Title List of Sources
Biographies and Listings

APPENDIXES
Appendix 1-Glossary
Appendix 2-Chronology of Pennsylvania, 1681-1710
Appendix 3-Religious Affiliation of Elected Pennsylvania Legislators, 1683-1709
Appendix 4-Provincial Council Attendance
Appendix 5-Laws Enacted in Pennsylvania, 1682-1709
Appendix 6-The Keithian Controversy and Factions in Philadelphia County
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NDEX OF SUBJECTS
INDEX OF NAMES