Creolization, Hybridity, Syncretism, Mixture
In: Portuguese Studies, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 48
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In: Portuguese Studies, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 48
In: A Wargames Research Group publication
In: Legislative studies quarterly, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 521
ISSN: 1939-9162
In: American journal of political science, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 835
ISSN: 1540-5907
In: Legislative studies quarterly, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 567
ISSN: 1939-9162
In: American journal of political science, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 584
ISSN: 1540-5907
In: Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 96
In: Public Choice
We investigate the "gag rule", a parliamentary device that from 1836 to 1844 barred the US House of Representatives from receiving petitions concerning the abolition of slavery. In the mid-1830s, the gag rule emerged as a partisan strategy to keep slavery off the congressional agenda, amid growing abolitionist agitation in the North. Very quickly, however, the strategy backfired, as the gag rule was framed successfully as a mechanism that encroached on white northerners' rights of petition. By 1844, popular pressure had become so great that many northern Democrats, an important bloc of prior gag rule supporters, yielded to electoral pressure, broke party ranks, and voted to rescind the rule, thereby sealing its fate. More generally, the politics of the gag rule provide an interesting causal-inference case study of the interplay between social movement development and congressional politics before the Civil War.