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Laboratory for Liberty : The South Carolina Legislative Committee System 1719-1776

This comprehensive study highlights the importance of legislative and extralegal committees in the political and institutional development of early American history, showing how the colonial experience modified a basic British institution, using it in the cause of legislative supremacy and, eventual...

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Autor principal: Frakes, George Edward, 1932-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1970.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyrights; Contents; Foreword; CHAPTER I The Background of the Legislative Committee System; CHAPTER II The Development of Legislative Committees in the Commons House of Assembly; CHAPTER III The Legislative Committee System in the Early Royal Period, 1719-1725; CHAPTER IV The Legislative Committee System in a Period of Western Expansion, 1727-1737; CHAPTER V The Legislative Committee System in Peace and Frontier Conflict, 1737-1748; CHAPTER VI Committees and Legislative Supremacy in a Second Era of Frontier Conflict, 1749-1764. 
505 0 |a CHAPTER VII Legislative Committees and the Road to Revolution, 1764-1774CHAPTER VIII Revolutionary Committee Activity, 1774-1776; APPENDIX I Committee Assignments and Memberships in the South Carolina Commons House of Assembly under the Revolutionary Government, 1720-1721; APPENDIX II Committee Assignments and Memberships in the South Carolina Commons House of Assembly during Selected Segments of the Royal Period, 1721-1776. 
505 0 |a APPENDIX III Geographic Distribution of, Assignments to, and Membership of Selected Important Legislative Committees of the South Carolina Commons House of Assembly, 1736-1739BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. 
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