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recently published guides to the House and Senate records housed at the National Archives. These reference works would be essential resources for the Documentary History project. The initial work of the Documentary History would also benefit from association with the "Encyclopedia of Congress Project" (recently funded through the Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution), which will complete a two-volume reference work by

1993.

The completed documentary series would be the first systematic effort to outline the institutional development of Congress over the past 200 years and establish the historical context of changes within the two bodies of the legislative branch of government. A joint project of the House and Senate historical offices, drawing on the expertise of staff at the Library of Congress and the National Archives, would be able to complete a comprehensive research project that no individual could achieve in a lifetime. The volumes would make available for a wide audience the essential records for understanding the workings of Congress today and throughout its history.

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ELECTIONS TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
House Series, Volume One

The debate on popular election

A. Elections practices in the colonial and state
legislatures

B. The Constitutional Convention and ratification

The First Federal Elections

A. District vs. general elections

B. Campaigning for national office

Congressional regulation of House elections

A. Mandating district elections

B. Establishment of uniform election dates

C. Suffrage regulations

1. The Reconstruction amendments

2. Women's suffrage

3. Lowering the voting age

Contested elections and seating controversies

A. The development of House procedures

B. Determining vote fraud and Members' qualifications

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REAPPORTIONMENT AND REDISTRICTING

House Series, Volume Two

Traditional forms of representation in Great Britain and the colonies

A. Territorial

B. Population

C. Representation in the Continental Congress and the
Federal Convention

Constitutional order of representation

A. First apportionment and the Federal Census

B. Proposed amendments for district size

The House's role in reapportionment and redistricting
A. Expansion of House seats

B. Methods of apportionment

Court Action on reapportionment

A. Early appeals to the Supreme Court

B. Baker vs. Carr and the decisions of the 1960s

Congress and the regulation of state districts
A. Regulating state districting practices
B. The elimination of at-large seats

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COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION IN THE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

House Series, Volume Three

Historical Sources

A. Committees in the British Parliament

B. Reliance on committees in the colonial legislatures
C. Committees of the Continental Congress

Origins of Congressional Committees

A. Use of select committees

B. Function of the Committee of the Whole

C. The first standing committees

The Rise of the Standing Committees

A. Expansion of the committee system, 1800-1840

B. Reliance on committees for consideration of legislation
C. Proliferation of committees following the Civil War

The Challenge of Committee Organization

A. Progressive reform

B. Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946

C. The reforms of the 1970s

1. The growing influence of subcommittees
2. Procedural changes

Committee Chairmen

A. From Clay to Cannon--The Speakers' domination of
committees

B. The Seniority System

C. The Modern Chair

Committee Membership

A. Early assignment procedure

B. The rule of Ways and Means

C. Assignments in the wake of the reforms of the 1970s

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PARTY ORGANIZATION AND LEADERSHIP

House Series, Volume Four

Origins of congressional parties

A. Fiscal and foreign policy divisions in the 1790s
B. Organization of the First Party System

C. The reign of the caucus

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A. Party organization in an age of sectional conflict
B. Party divisions and shifting power in the Gilded Age

The reinvigoration of congressional parties

A. Speaker Reed and party loyalty

B. Party roles in the aftermath of the revolt against
Speaker Cannon

1. The fate of the caucus and conference

C. Party structure in the modern House

The Speaker of the House

A. Evolution of the office

1. Colonial precedents for an active legislator
2. Henry Clay and the potential for leadership
3. The "Czars" of the House

B. The Speaker's authority in the twentieth century
C. The Speaker as party leader

The leadership structure

A. The advent of party floor leaders

B. Role of the whips

C. Caucus chair

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