...This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the value of a Senate seat and a general assessment of the value that a Senate seat added to a state during this era of federalism. It argues that from a purely distributive standpoint, the value of a Senate seat was not high, but for political...

... complete, they have a triple-S constitution. These three sorts of dispositions are as follows: the innermost (seat), the inner (seat + shape), and the complete (seat + shape + situation). However, not every disposition to succeed when one tries constitutes a competence, although every competence...

...This chapter investigates how the appointment of Leo to the episcopal seat of S. Eusebio opened a new chapter in Vercelli's history. Leo certainly exploited the opportunity of producing his own diplomas to cast Vercelli in the best possible light. In the tumultuous politics of the late ninth...