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The late Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia was both a distinguished legislator and an historian of note. During his tenure in the Senate, he produced a magisterial 4-volume history of the Senate. The first two volumes are made up of a series of speeches he delivered on the Senate floor covering the growth of the Senate as an institution, the biographies of Senate greats, and much more. Volume 3 is a collection of great Senate speeches, and Volume 4 a compilation of notable Senate statistics. Senator Byrd also wrote a remarkable book on ancient Rome: The Senate of the Roman Republic: Addresses on the History of Roman Constitutionalism. The roots of this book lay in Senator Byrd’s determined opposition to the idea of the line-item veto, which would grant the President the power to veto particular items in appropriations bills. Byrd viewed this proposal as usurping the Senate’s role and a threat to constitutional checks and balances. Filled with scholarly references to Polybius, Tacitus, and Montesquieu, it also presents the Senator’s impassioned arguments against the line-item veto. We shall not see his like again.
Publisher: Senate Description: Senate Bicentennial Publication. Senate Document 100-20. Edited by Mary Sharon Hall. Consists of 42 addresses to the Senate delivered between 1981 and 1987. These speeches have been compiled, revised, and edited to present the United States Senate's history and traditions of the past 200 years. S. Con. Res. 18. 100th Congress, 1s Session. Year/Pages: 1988: 820 p.; ill.
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Publisher: Senate Description: Senate Bicentennial Publication. S. Con. Res. 18. Senate Document 100-20. By Robert C. Byrd. Edited by Wendy Wolff. Consists of addresses to the Senate on its history delivered in the late 1980s. The lectures discuss leadership, power, organization, setting, and the 1989 Senate. 100th Congress, 1st Session. L.C. card 88-24545. Item 996-A. Year/Pages: 1991: 694 p.; ill., portrait and errata.
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Publisher: Senate, Senate Historical Office Description: Senate Bicentennial Publication. Senate Document 100-20. (Compiled by) Robert C. Byrd. Edited by Wendy Wolff. Contains the texts of 46 speeches by: Robert Y, Hayne, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Thomas Corwin, Thomas Hart Benton, William H. Seward, Jeremiah Clemens, William P. Fessenden, Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson Davis, Andrew Johnson, Henry Cabot Lodge, William E. Borah, Rebecca L. Fenton, Huey P. Long, Joseph R. McCarthy, Hubert H. Humphrey, Richard M. Nixon, Frank Church, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Michael J. Mansfield, Everett M. Dirksen, Gale W. McGee, Robert C. Byrd, and other Senators. L.C. card 88-24545. Year/Pages: 1994: 812 p.; ill.
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$69.00
Publisher: Senate, Senate Historical Office Description: Senate Bicentennial Publication. Senate Con. Res. 18. Senate Document 100-20. By Robert Byrd, United States Senator. Edited by Wendy Wolff. Includes lists, tables, and statistics on: Senators; Senatorial elections; Sessions; Party leadership and organization; Committees; Senate organization; and Senate powers. Item 996-A. Year/Pages: 1993: 760 p.
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Publisher: Senate, Historical Office Description: S.DOC. 103-23. Provides a series of fourteen addresses delivered in 1993 before the Senate by Senator Robert C. Byrd. Discusses the constitutional history of separated and shared powers as shaped in the republic and empire of ancient Rome. These lectures are also in opposition to the proposed line-item veto concept. The introduction states that Senator Byrd delivered these speeches entirely from memory and without notes. L.C. card 94-38166. Item 1008-E. Year/Pages: 1994: 207 p.; ill.
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$18.00
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