In Call to Order, Smith outlines how a fairly stable period of Congressional reform in the 1950s and the early 1960s erupted into a turbulent period of reform in the 1970s.
Smith (political science, U. of Minnesota) writes of the changing distribution of power in Congress, the interplay of rules, procedures, and policy, and the role of the floor in the legislative process.
CALL TO ORDER, the first in a series of books to be produced by the University of Miami School of Architecture, is inspired by rappel l'ordre, the post WWI, European, art movement that rejected the extreme tenants of the avant garde and its ...
Call to Order: Meeting Rules and Procedures for Non-Profit Organizations
Among them, "Does four-of-a-kind beat a full house in poker'" (Yes.) Does a Marquess outrank a Duke' (No.) And, what classification of sinner populates the Sixth Circle of Hell' (Heretics.) And, how are they punished. (Crammed into burning ...
Call to Order: African Americans and the Law
In Call to Order, Smith outlines how a fairly stable period of reform in the 1950s and the early 1960s erupted into a turbulent period of reform in the 1970s.