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A Citizen Legislature (1985), by Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips (HTML at well.com)- Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century (2020), by American Academy of Arts and Sciences (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at amacad.org)
- By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by John Gastil (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), by Erik J. Engstrom
- A Plea for the Introduction of Responsible Government and the Representation of Capital Into the United States as Safeguards Against Communism and Disunion (Springfield, IL: Printed for the author by J. C. Hughes, 1879), by Van Buren Denslow (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Color of Representation: Congressional Behavior and Black Interests (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Kenny J. Whitby (page images at HathiTrust)
- The History of Legislative Methods in the Period Before 1825 (New Haven: Yale University Press; et al., 1917), by Ralph Volney Harlow (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Devaluation of the Urban and Suburban Vote: A Statistical Investigation of Long-Term Trends in State Legislative Representation (2 volumes in 1; Charlottesville, VA: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Virginia, 1961-1962), by Paul T. David and Ralph Eisenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- Devaluation of the Urban and Suburban Vote: A Statistical Investigation of Long-Term Trends in State Legislative Representation (2 volumes in 1; Charlottesville, VA: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Virginia, 1961-1962), by Paul T. David and Ralph Eisenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- Devaluation of the Urban and Suburban Vote: A Statistical Investigation of Long-Term Trends in State Legislative Representation (2 volumes in 1; Charlottesville, VA: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Virginia, 1961-1962), by Paul T. David and Ralph Eisenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Legislative Committee Game: A Comparative Analysis of Fifty States (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Wayne L. Francis (PDF at Ohio State)
- State Legislatures Magazine (partial serial archives)
- A Check List of Legislative Journals Issued Since 1937 by the States of the United States of America (Chicago: American Library Association, 1955), by William R. Pullen (page images at HathiTrust)
- Check-List of Legislative Journals of States of the United States of America (Providence, RI: The Oxford Press, 1938), by Grace E. Macdonald, contrib. by National Association of State Libraries Public Document Clearing House Committee
- Counting the Vote: Should Only U.S. Citizens Be Included in Apportioning Our Elected Representatives? Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, December 6, 2005 (Washington: GPO, 2006), by United State House Committee on Government Reform
- Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), by Erik J. Engstrom
- A Citizen's Guide to Redistricting (c2010), by Justin Levitt, contrib. by Erika Wood (PDF at brennancenter.org)
- 2010 Census, Reducing the Undercount in the Hispanic Community: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, July 9, 2007 (Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- Exclude Aliens in the Enumeration of the Census for the Purposes of Apportionment: Hearings Before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Seventy-First Congress, Third Session, on H.J. Res. 20, 101, 356, and 484, Serial 16, Jan. 14, 21, 28, 29, 1931, by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
- Alien Census Count: Hearing Before a Subcommitee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res. 85, A Joint Resolution Proposing to Amend the Constitution of the United States to Exclude Aliens in Counting the Whole Number of Persons in Each State for Apportionment of Representatives Among the Several States (Washington: GPO, 1945), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Rise and Development of the Bicameral System in America (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, series 13, #5; 1895), by Thomas Francis Moran
- A Check List of Legislative Journals Issued Since 1937 by the States of the United States of America (Chicago: American Library Association, 1955), by William R. Pullen (page images at HathiTrust)
- Contempt of Congress: The Trial of Earl Browder (Yonkers, NY: Earl Browder, 1951), contrib. by Earl Browder, Louis B. Boudin, and United States District Court (District of Columbia) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters, volume 1: Investigations and Prosecutions, by Lawrence E. Walsh (HTML at fas.org)
- Contempt of Congress: The Trial of Earl Browder (Yonkers, NY: Earl Browder, 1951), contrib. by Earl Browder, Louis B. Boudin, and United States District Court (District of Columbia) (page images at HathiTrust)
- In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1949, No. 248: John Howard Lawson, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent; No. 249: Dalton Trumbo, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent: Brief of Alexander Meiklejohn, of Cultural Workers in Motion Pictures and Other Arts, and of Members of the Professions, as Amici Curiae (Los Angeles: Parker and Co., printers, ca. 1949), by Max Radin and Carey McWilliams, contrib. by Alexander Meiklejohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, by Delaware House of Representatives (partial serial archives)
- Journal of the Senate of the State of Delaware, by Delaware Senate (partial serial archives)
- House Journals, by Florida House of Representatives (partial serial archives)
- Senate Journals, by Florida Senate (partial serial archives)
- Acts and Resolutions of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, by Florida Legislative Council (1822-1845) (partial serial archives)
- Journal of the Senate of the State of Georgia, by Georgia Senate (partial serial archives)
- Journal of the House of Representatives, by Illinois House of Representatives (partial serial archives)
- Journal of the Senate, by Illinois Senate (partial serial archives)
- Deschler's Precedents of the United States House of Representatives, Including References to Provisions of the Constitution and Laws, and to Decisions of the Courts (1974), by Lewis Deschler (PDF and text at house.gov)
- Hughes' American Parliamentary Guide, Prepared for Ohio General Assembly: The Process of Lawmaking (Columbus: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1922), by Edward Wakefield Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lex Parliamentaria Americana: Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States of America (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1856), by Luther Stearns Cushing (page images at MOA)
- House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House (current and past editions, 1996-present), contrib. by Wm. Holmes Brown, Charles W. Johnson, John V. Sullivan, and Thomas J. Wickham (PDF and text files with commentary at govinfo.gov)
- A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States (Washington: Davis and Force, 1820), by Thomas Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Warrington's Manual: A Manual for the Information of Officers and Members of Legislatures, Conventions, Societies, Corporations, Orders, Etc., by William Stevens Robinson (page images at MOA)
- The New York State Legislative Process: An Evaluation and Blueprint for Reform (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2004), by Jeremy M. Creelan and Laura M. Moulton (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
- By Invitation Only: The Rise of Exclusive Politics in the United States (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000), by Steven E. Schier (page images at Pitt)
- The Anti-Defense Lobby (in 3 parts; Washington: Heritage Foundation, 1979), by William T. Poole
- Documents on the State-Wide Initiative, Referendum, and Recall (New York: Macmillan, 1912), ed. by Charles A. Beard and Birl E. Shultz (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Government by All the People: or, The Initiative, the Referendum, and the Recall as Instruments of Democracy (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by Delos F. Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Betts-Roosevelt Letters: A Spirited and Illuminating Discussion on a Pure Democracy, Direct Nominations, the Initiative, the Referendum and the Recall and the New York State Court of Appeals' Decision in the Workmen's Compensation Case (Lyons, NY: Lyons Republican Co., 1912), by Charles H. Betts, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt
- Direct Legislation by the Citizenship Through the Initiative and Referendum (New York: Nationalist Pub. Co., 1893), by J. W. Sullivan (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Documents on the State-Wide Initiative, Referendum, and Recall (New York: Macmillan, 1912), ed. by Charles A. Beard and Birl E. Shultz (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Government by All the People: or, The Initiative, the Referendum, and the Recall as Instruments of Democracy (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by Delos F. Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Referendum in America, Together With Some Chapters on the Initiative and the Recall (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1911), by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Betts-Roosevelt Letters: A Spirited and Illuminating Discussion on a Pure Democracy, Direct Nominations, the Initiative, the Referendum and the Recall and the New York State Court of Appeals' Decision in the Workmen's Compensation Case (Lyons, NY: Lyons Republican Co., 1912), by Charles H. Betts, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt
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