by jpitney | Apr 7, 2021 | Congress
William Gray at LegBranch.org: The U.S. Congress depends on informal rules — norms — to function. Many traditional norms such as courtesy and reciprocity are under siege in this age of partisan conflict. What are the congressional norms of today? How are they...
by jpitney | Mar 10, 2021 | Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
From LegBranch.org: The U.S. Congress depends on informal rules — norms — to function. Many traditional norms such as courtesy and reciprocity are under siege in this age of partisan conflict. What are the congressional norms of today? How are they changing? Can...
by jpitney | Nov 23, 2020 | China, Civility
Alexander Hamilton, Feberalist 6: A man must be far gone in Utopian speculations who can seriously doubt, that if these States should either be wholly disunited, or only united in partial confederacies, the subdivisions into which they might be thrown would have...
