Francis X. Ryan Livres

My faith commands me to take care of those in need, particularly the children. Then in 2008, our nation faced a serious financial crisis. During that crisis, funding for mental health became disrupted, and children suffered. The crushing need to help our children led me to walk across america to tell everyone who would listen about the needs of children with emotional issues, behavioral issues, and developmental disabilities. Little did i know at the outset of my walk that it would become a walk of lifes lessons learned about the beautiful, decent, caring people in our nation. During my walk, my cynicism was replaced with hope, with gratitude, and with renewed faith in mankind. I was renewed spiritually and emotionally by the people i met along my journey. My walk started as a spiritual journey. It was a walk of atonement and a walk of gratitude.

This study focuses on one aspect of the republican senate the relationship between rank and participation in debate. The senate is usually pictured as a place in which a relatively small number of high-ranking senators who spoke exercised influence over a relatively large number of low-ranking senators who voted. The author argues that these silent senators are a figment of the imagination of nineteenth-century historians, that the most humble senator regularly received a chance to speak. Once the old view of the nature of debate in the senate is discarded as mistaken, it becomes possible to discuss privileged positions in debate and the question of influence. The evidence demonstrates that high rank was neither necessary for participation nor sufficient for influence. „... Ryan hat eine nützliche, sehr stoffreiche und darüber hinaus gut lesbare Studie vorgelegt, die bei einer Beschäftigung mit dem republikanischen Senat künftig zweifelsohne zu berücksichtigen sein wird und worauf weiterführende Studien aufbauen können.“ Historische Zeitschrift „…exzellente Analysen, sehr kluge Fragen, überraschende Beobachtungen und bündige Schlußfolgerungen […] R. hat die Forschung um einen großen Schritt voran gebracht.“ Gnomon