The Invention of the American Political PartiesThis volume goes back into time to seek out the divergent and sometimes contradictory legal principles and practices which, bit by bit, created an accumulating mosaic -- the American political system of self-government. The author maintains that this system reached maturity in the 1850, a few years before its severest test, during the American Civil War. This book provides a summary of constitutional-political antecedents with some elements of the old "germinal, organic growth" views of self governing institutions. |
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CENTURIES OF EVOLUTION I | 1 |
VIRGINIAN ORIGINS | 13 |
WILDERNESS ZIONS | 26 |
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