Transatlantic Majoritarianism: How Murder, Migration, and Modernity Transformed Nineteenth-Century Legislatures

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In 1890, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Brackett Reed used his usher in majority rule in the chamber. Reed is praised for establishing majoritarianism in democratic legislatures.

But Reed was influenced by Commons Speaker Henry Brand, who in 1881 implemented that chamber’s first closure in response to obstructive behavior by Irish MPs. This book explores why and how two legislatures established hundreds of years apart on two different continents were forced to address obstructive behavior within the same decade.

Marshalling archival evidence from the U.S., Ireland, and the U.K., Transatlantic Majoritarianism: How Murder, Migration, and Modernity Transformed Nineteenth-Century Legislatures reveals how a transatlantic network of legislators, journalists, technocrats, and terrorists radically transformed national legislatures on both sides of the Atlantic in the late nineteenth century. 

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