First Congress Unit

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Unit Bibliography

Bickford, C.B. & Bowling, K.R. (1989). Birth of the Nation: The First Federal Congress 1789-1791. Madison, WI: Madison House Publishers.

Bowling, K.R. (1990). Politics in the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791. New York: Distinguished Studies in American Legal and Constitutional Garland Publishing, Inc.

Bowling, Kenneth R. and Veit, Helen E. (1988). The Diary of William Maclay and Other Notes on Senate Debates: March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791. Baltimore, MD. The John Hopkins University Press.

Center for Civic Education. We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution. Calabasas, CA. 1996.

Christman, Margaret C. S. The First Federal Congress: 1789-1791. (1989). Washington; Smithsonian Institution Press.

DiClerico, R.E. & Hammock, A.S. (1998). Points of View: Readings in American Government and Politics. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill.

DiGiacomantonio, Willam Charles; Bowling, Kenneth R.; Bickford, Charlene Bangs; and Veit, Helen V. (eds.) (1995). Documentary History of the First Federal Congress 1789-1791. Debates in the House of Representatives: Third Session December 1790-March 1791 and Biographies of Members. Baltimore, MD. The John Hopkins University Press.

O’Connor, Karen and Sabato, Larry J. (2000). The Essentials of American Government: Continuity and Change. Longman. New York.

The Annals of America: 1784-1796 Organizing the New Nation (Volume 3). (1968). Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.

The World Almanac: And Book of Facts 2002. (2001) World Almanac Books
PRIMEDIA Reference, Inc. Mahwah, NJ.

Veit, H.E., Bickford, C.B. & Bowling, K.R. (1991). Creating the Bill of Rights: The
Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress
. Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins University Press.

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