Student’s Guide to Congress

Student’s Guide to Congress

Editor: Bruce J. Schulman

Since the 1980s, Dr. Bruce J. Schulman has been teaching and writing about the political face of the United States. He is Professor of History at Boston University. He has taken an active role in education.

Other contributions from Bruce J. Schulman to the collection:

  • Student’s Guide to the Presidency (2009)
  • Student’s Guide to the Supreme Court (2010)
  • Student’s Guide to Congress (2008)
  • Student’s Guide to Elections (2008)

Main Keywords used in this work

  • Census
  • Congressional Research Service
  • Mace
  • Joint Session
  • Parliamentarian
  • Lobbyists
  • Gavel
  • Checks and Balances
  • Nineteenth Amendment
  • African Americans
  • Federalist
  • Connecticut Compromise
  • Members of Congress
  • Conference Committees
  • Line-Item Veto
  • Library of Congress
  • Impeachment
  • Whips
  • Pressure Groups
  • Senate Rules
  • Congressional Pay
  • Army
  • Article I
  • Article II
  • Implied Powers
  • Senate
  • Appropriations Bills
  • Congressional Office Buildings
  • Cloakroom
  • Constitutional Amendments
  • Naturalization
  • District of Columbia
  • Ad Hoc Committees
  • Joint Committees
  • Constituents
  • Bipartisanship
  • Albany Plan
  • Senatorial Courtesy
  • History of Congress
  • War Powers Resolution
  • Telegram
  • Midterm Elections
  • Senatorial Elections
  • House of Representatives Elections
  • Vice President
  • Capitol
  • Commerce
  • Declaration of War
  • Caucus
  • Committees
  • Political Parties
  • Congressional Government
  • Joseph McCarthy
  • Abscam
  • Gibbons v. Ogden
  • Nancy Pelosi
  • Army-McCarthy Hearings
  • Texas
  • Filibuster
  • Hispanic Caucus
  • Black Caucus
  • Electoral College
  • Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
  • Majority Leader
  • Party Whips
  • Oath of Office
  • Constitutional Convention
  • Continental Congresses
  • Non-Voting Members of Congress
  • Henry Clay
  • Whitewater Investigations
  • Iraq War Resolution
  • Media
  • Contempt of Congress
  • Branches
  • Sergeant at Arms
  • President Pro Tempore
  • Articles of Impeachment
  • Declaration of War
  • Articles of Impeachment
  • Franking
  • Public Interest Groups
  • Women
  • Sessions of Congress
  • Congressional Immunity
  • Spoils System
  • Watergate
  • Teapot Dome
  • Expressed Powers
  • Judicial Review
  • Asian Americans
  • Cloture
  • Congressional Investigations
  • Congressional Voting
  • Admission of New States
  • Virginia Plan
  • New Jersey Plan
  • Seventeenth Amendment
  • Congressional Allowances
  • Censure
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  • Two-Thirds Rule
  • Impeachment Rules
  • Ethics
  • War in Iraq
  • Commerce Clause
  • Federalism
  • Interns
  • Congressional Staff
  • Senators
  • Popular Sovereignty
  • Capitol
  • President
  • Separation of Powers
  • Bicameralism
  • Prohibition Repealed
  • South Carolina Electoral Vote Document
  • Thirteen Colonies
  • Articles of Confederation
  • Bill of Rights
  • John Quincy Adams
  • Constitution
  • Supreme Court
  • Amendment
  • House of Representatives
  • Article I
  • Patronage
  • Exclusion
  • Vetoes
  • Speaker
  • Congressional Record
  • Bills
  • Hispanic Americans
  • Reapportionment
  • Redistricting
  • Impoundment
  • Pork-Barrel Spending
  • Television
  • Twelfth Amendment
  • Twentieth Amendment
  • Twenty-fifth Amendment
  • Sessions
  • Enactment
  • Senate
  • Campaign Finance
  • Volstead Act, 1932
  • Minority Leader
  • Capitol Subways
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Impeachment Power
  • Seniority
  • Iran-Contra
  • Balanced Budget Amendment
  • Seventeenth Amendment
  • Treaty Power
  • War Powers
  • Power of the Purse
  • Foreign Policy
  • President
  • Limited Government
  • John Adams Quincy (1767-1848)
  • Legislative Reorganization Act (1946)
  • Private Bills
  • War Powers Resolution
  • Civil Rights Act
  • Voting Rights Act
  • Senate Calendars
  • House of Representatives Calendars
  • Nineteenth Amendment, 1920
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Congressional Pages

Other Keywords

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Preface

Who is running America-Congress or the President? The way Congress works: How does an idea become a law? Imagine how questions like these, in Student’s Guide to Congress, will stimulate discussion among your students. The book covers topics such as:

  • Origins of Congress
  • Powers of Congress
  • Congressional Procedures
  • Congressional Leadership
  • Elections and Constituents

Student’s Guide to Congress is the second title in the brand new Student’s Guide to the U.S. Government Series, which presents essential information about the U.S. government in a manner accessible to high school students. In a unique three-part format, these titles place at the reader’s fingertips everything they need to know about the evolution of elections, Congress, the presidency, and the Supreme Court, from the struggles to create the U.S. government in the late eighteenth century through the on-going issues of the early twenty-first century.

Each Guide is divided into three sections:

  • Part One Three essays, each addressing a provocative question about the book’s topic
  • Part Two A-Z entries covering key concepts and terms
  • Part Three Primary Source Library of legislation, Supreme Court cases, and other historical documents

The Student’s Guide to the U.S. Government Series from CQ Press is written so that students need no prior knowledge to understand the fundamental concepts presented. By placing at hand-in thought-provoking essays, easy-to-understand encyclopedic entries, and pivotal primary source documents-the essential information needed by student researchers and educators, the Student’s Guide to the U.S. Government Series offers valuable resources for government, politics, and history classes.


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