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Professor John Bystrom of the University of Minnesota, former Nebraska Attorney General C. A. Sorensen, and the Honorable Hugo Srb, Clerk of the Nebraska State Legislature, were helpful in providing previously unpublished correspondence of George Norris and pertinent documents of the Nebraska State Legislature.†
Chpt Pref.

legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
Professor John Bystrom of the University of Minnesota, former Nebraska Attorney General C. A. Sorensen, and the Honorable Hugo Srb, Clerk of the Nebraska State Legislature, were helpful in providing previously unpublished correspondence of George Norris and pertinent documents of the Nebraska State Legislature.†
Chpt Pref.
Realizing that the path of the conscientious insurgent must frequently be a lonely one, we are anxious to get along with our fellow legislators, our fellow members of the club, to abide by the clubhouse rules and patterns, not to pursue a unique and independent course which would embarrass or irritate the other members.†
Chpt 0.1
But the legislator has some responsibility to conciliate those opposing forces within his state and party and to represent them in the larger clash of interests on the national level; and he alone knows that there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.†
Chpt 0.1

legislator = an elected government representative who (with fellow representatives) has the power to create laws
Moreover, in these days of Civil Service, the loaves and fishes of patronage available to the legislator—for distribution to those earnest campaigners whose efforts were inspired by something more than mere conviction—are comparatively few; and he who breaks the party's ranks may find that there are suddenly none at all.†
Chpt 0.1
Nor were Senators even to be elected by popular vote; the state legislatures, which could be relied upon to represent the24 conservative property interests of each state and to resist the "follies of the masses," were assigned that function.†
Chpt 1.0

legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
State legislatures, which would become increasingly responsive to those previously scorned "masses" as property qualifications for voting were removed, transmitted the political pressures of their own constituents to their Senators through "instructions" (a device which in this country apparently had originated in the old Puritan town meetings, which had instructed their deputies to the Massachusetts General Court on such measures as "removing the Capital from the wicked city of Boston," taking any steps possible "to exterminate the legal profession," andpreventing debtors from paying their debts "with old rusty barrels of guns that are serviceable for no man, except to work up as old iron")†
Chpt 1.0
Some Senators were also required to return regularly to their state legislatures, to report like Venetian envoys on their stewardship at the Capital.†
Chpt 1.0 *
Had he not been elected as a Federalist to the Massachusetts Legislature and then to the United States Senate?†
Chpt 1.2

legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
But no sooner had the young ex-diplomat been elected as a Federalist to the Massachusetts Legislature when he demonstrated his audacious disdain for narrow partisanship.†
Chpt 1.2
In subsequently selecting young Adams for the Senate, his colleagues in the state legislature may have assumed that the honor for one of his comparative youth would help impress upon him his obligations to his party.†
Chpt 1.2
But while with one hand the legislature moved young John Quincy nearer his vision of service to the nation, with the other it rudely ripped through the fabric of his dream and placed real and unpleasant obstacles in his path.†
Chpt 1.2
His former colleagues in the State Legislature publicly charged him with ungrateful "conduct worthy of Machiavelli"; but he wrote his mother that he felt that, as Senator, he could best determine what Massachusetts' best interests were, and "if Federalism consists in looking to the British navy as the only palladium of our liberty, I must be a political heretic."†
Chpt 1.2
Even though New England Republicans refused to defend their President's bill, the Federalist party, scoring heavily on the issue, returned triumphantly to power in both Houses of the Massachusetts legislature.†
Chpt 1.2
"Most completely was I deserted by my friends, in Boston and in the state legislature," he wrote his mother.†
Chpt 1.2
When his colleague Pickering denounced him in an open letter to the Legislature which was distributed throughout Massachusetts in tens of thousands, he wrote a masterful reply—criticizing the Federalist party as sectional, outmoded and unpatriotic; insisting that the critical issues of war and peace could not be decided on the basis of "geographical position, party bias or professional occupation"; and exploding at Pickering's servile statement that "Although Great Britain, with her thousand ships of war, could have destroyed our commerce, she has really done it no essential injury."†
Chpt 1.2
The Federalist Legislature convened at the end of May 1808, with—as the Massachusetts Republican Governor wrote Jefferson—but one "principal object—the political and even the personal destruction of John Quincy Adams."†
Chpt 1.2
As soon as both Houses had organized, the Legislature immediately elected Adams' successor—nine months prior to the expiration of his term!†
Chpt 1.2
And as its next order of business, the Legislature promptly passed resolutions instructing its Senators to urge repeal of the Embargo.†
Chpt 1.2
For it ought, in regular order, not to have been made until the winter session of the legislature.†
Chpt 1.2
As the Massachusetts Legislature enacted further resolutions wholly contrary to the spirit of the Seventh of March speech, one member called Webster "a recreant son of Massachusetts who misrepresents her in the Senate"; and another stated that "Daniel Webster will be a fortunate man if God, in his sparing mercy, shall preserve his life long enough for him to repent of this act and efface this stain on his name."†
Chpt 2.3
Democratic candidates for the Missouri Legislature were required to pledge to vote for his re-election under pain of humiliating defeat in their own campaigns.†
Chpt 2.4
As the campaign for the legislature which would consider his re-election began in 1844, Benton broke sharply with his state and party by engineering the defeat of the treaty for the annexation of Texas.†
Chpt 2.4
Labeled a traitor to his party and section and an ally of the Whigs and British, Benton openly lost the support of prominent candidates for the Missouri Legislature and was subject to all manner of personal attacks—as a nonresident, a defaulter in his debts, and one contemptuous of public opinion.†
Chpt 2.4
His tremendous personal popularity among the ordinary citizens carried him through the legislature—but by only eight votes, in a legislature his party controlled by a twenty-seven vote margin.†
Chpt 2.4
His tremendous personal popularity among the ordinary citizens carried him through the legislature—but by only eight votes, in a legislature his party controlled by a twenty-seven vote margin.†
Chpt 2.4
Calhoun, successful in obtaining adoption of his resolutions by several Southern legislatures, denounced Benton to his Missouri enemies as one "false to the South for the last ten years......He can do us much less injury in the camp of the abolitionists than he could in our own camp.†
Chpt 2.4

legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
By an overwhelming margin, the Missouri Legislature adopted Calhoun's resolutions, expressed Missouri's desire to cooperate with other slaveholding states, and instructed her Senators to vote accordingly.†
Chpt 2.4

legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
Determined to see the Legislature's resolutions withdrawn or repudiated, Benton launched an aggressive tour of his hostile state.†
Chpt 2.4
One day, bitterly reading and commenting upon the names of each member of the Legislature, he stopped when he came to the "D's" and said he smelled a Nullifier.†
Chpt 2.4
A legislator named Davies having arisen to protest, Benton scowled: "I never called your name, sir.†
Chpt 2.4

legislator = an elected government representative who (with fellow representatives) has the power to create laws
As the contest for the State Legislature that would name his successor raged in Missouri, Senator Benton stood fast by his post in Washington, outspoken to the end in his condemna-tion of the views his constituents now embraced.†
Chpt 2.4

legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
In January, 1851, climaxing a bitter twelve-day struggle among its three distinct parties—Benton Democrats, anti-Benton Democrats and Whigs—the Missouri Legislature on its fortieth ballot elected a Whig.†
Chpt 2.4
By a vote of 73 to 3 the Legislature applauded Houston's colleague for supporting the Nebraska Bill, and condemned the stand of him who was once the most glorious hero the state had ever known.†
Chpt 2.5
But the Texas Legislature adopted Calhoun's resolutions, and cast a suspicious eye on the ambitious former President of Texas whose name was being mentioned, in the North as well as the South, for the White House in 1852 or 1856.†
Chpt 2.5
On November 10, 1857, Sam Houston was unceremoniously dismissed by the Texas Legislature and a more militant spokesman for the South elected as his successor.†
Chpt 2.5
Maintaining that the overwhelmingly hostile Democratic Legislature did not truly represent the people, Governor Houston violated all precedent by delivering his inaugural address directly to the people from the steps of the Capitol, instead of before a joint session of the Legislature.†
Chpt 2.5
Maintaining that the overwhelmingly hostile Democratic Legislature did not truly represent the people, Governor Houston violated all precedent by delivering his inaugural address directly to the people from the steps of the Capitol, instead of before a joint session of the Legislature.†
Chpt 2.5
With obvious reference to such enemies, Houston told the Legislature in his first general message in 1860: notwithstanding the ravings of deluded zealots, or the impious threats of fanatical disunionists, the love of our common country still burns with the fire of the olden time ....in the hearts of the conservative people of Texas......Texas will maintain the Constitution and stand by the Union.†
Chpt 2.5
When South Carolina invited Texas to send delegates to the Southern Convention to protest "assaults upon the institution of slavery and upon the rights of the South," Houston transmitted the communication to the Legislature as a matter of courtesy, but warned in a masterful document: "The Union was intended to be a perpetuity."†
Chpt 2.5
Sam Houston, fighting desperately to hold on to the reins of government, called a special session of the State Legislature, denouncing extremists both North and South and insisting that he had "not yet lost the hope that our rights can be maintained in the Union."†
Chpt 2.5
But the Secession Convention leaders, recognized by the Legislature and aided by the desertion of the Union commander in Texas, could not be stopped, and their headlong rush into secession was momentarily disturbed only by the surprise appearance of the Governor they hated but feared.†
Chpt 2.5
Governor Houston, still desperately attempting to regain the initiative, indicated he would make known his plans on the matter to the legislature.†
Chpt 2.5
A member of the Kansas Legislature called upon Ross at the Capitol.†
Chpt 3.6
On March 5, 1850, the Legislature of the State of Mississippi adopted a series of resolutions instructing the representatives of Mississippi to vote against the admission of California.†
Chpt 3.7
But his extemporaneous speech, in which he chastised Senator Foote for ignoring the instructions of the Mississippi Legislature (as he himself was to do twenty-eight years later), was a notable success, and at the end of the debate the students of the university "bore him away upon their shoulders."†
Chpt 3.7
Riding a wave of popularity and the 1876 return to Democratic rule in Mississippi, Lamar was elected by the Legislature to the United States Senate.†
Chpt 3.7
And the following day he voted "No" on the Matthews Resolution, in opposition to his colleague from Mississippi, a Negro Republican of exceptional talents elected several years earlier by the old "carpetbag" Legislature.†
Chpt 3.7
On January 30, the State Legislature adopted a Memorial omitting all mention of Lamar but—in an obvious and deliberate slap—congratulating and thanking his colleague (to whom the white Democratic legislators normally were bitterly opposed) for voting the opposite way and thus reflecting "the sentiment and will of his constituents."†
Chpt 3.7
On January 30, the State Legislature adopted a Memorial omitting all mention of Lamar but—in an obvious and deliberate slap—congratulating and thanking his colleague (to whom the white Democratic legislators normally were bitterly opposed) for voting the opposite way and thus reflecting "the sentiment and will of his constituents."†
Chpt 3.7

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