Transatlantic Majoritarianism: How Murder, Migration, and Modernity Transformed Nineteenth Century Legislatures - Hardcover

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In 1890, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Brackett Reed used the authority his position afforded to him to permanently hobble legislative minorities in the House and to usher in the practice of simple majority rule. Legislative scholars have long lauded Reed as a transformational leader, whose...