The Invention of the American Political Parties

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Macmillan, 1967 - Political Science - 416 pages
This 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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