An Introduction to the Local Constitutional History of the United States, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book An Introduction to the Local Constitutional History of the United States, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by George Elliott Howard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Introduction to the Local Constitutional History of the United States, Vol. 1 Since the appearance of Freeman's Comparative Politics the theory of an English local constitution whose origin is coeval with the origin of the race has become familiar to every scholar. In that work the real extent and the real limitations of our common Aryan heritage were first disclosed. Already an extensive monographic literature, every day increasing, bears witness to the high value set upon the study of local institutions. But it is a noteworthy fact that local constitutional history, as a unity deserving of sustained and comprehensive treatment, has as yet found few expounders. Bishop Stubbs, it is true, in his account of the higher organism has assigned to the lower its proper space and rank. George Waitz has rendered a similar service for Germany; and the evolution of the mark, village, and other communities on the Continent, has been described at great length by George L.v. Maurer. But the treatise of Dr. Gneist is the only work of first rate importance which has yet been devoted exclusively to the history of local self-government in England. This book, however, is a practical demonstration that the history of the local constitution, for weight and dignity, may rightly take its place on a level with that of the state itself. No compendious treatise on the development of local institutions in the United States has yet appeared. Indeed, until recently, the attempt to produce such a work, if not premature, would at least have proved extremely difficult. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.