A Court of Not-Quite-Last Resort: Institutional and Electoral Influences on the Creation of the Federal Court of Claims

• In Event: Congressional Committees and Oversight

Brief Overview

This paper considers the choice in 1855 of Congress to give partial, but not final, power over federal claims to a court as a tradeoff between efficiency and credit claiming at a time when electoral accountability began to emerge in the House.

Author

• John Baughman, Bates College