To Save Democracy from Juristocracy: J.B. Thayer and Congressional Power after the Civil War
Rephael G. Stern, Samuel Moyn
In late summer 1883, Harvard Law School professor James Bradley Thayer returned from a trip to England. There he had witnessed the debate on the Third Reform Bill, known officially as the Representation of the People Act, which passed the next year. More than any other step, by nearly doubling the electorate, it ratified the…
