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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
1970.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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, eventually, independence. The book illuminates the role played by committees in the growth of colonial self-government, tracing the committee system to its origins in the parliamentary committees of medieval England, then following the permutations of the committee system through the decades in which sel. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (218 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813162904 |