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John Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Vol. 3: Local Government in Illinois; Reprinted From the Fortnightly Review and ... Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 1, 1882

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Description:Excerpt from John Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Vol. 3: Local Government in Illinois; Reprinted From the Fortnightly Review and Local Government in Pennsylvania; Read Before the Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 1, 1882 It is difficult to approach the study of the political systems to-day in operation in the new Western States without a feeling that they are wholly artificial and superimposed inventions rather than growths. Such preconceptions must in good measure yield before a study of the simple facts. Artificial and mathematical as is that checker-board system of local geography which a township map of Illinois depicts, it nevertheless furnishes metes and bounds for local governments which are neither novel nor experimental, but are transplanted scions from older growths of Anglo-Saxon communal life, which have already taken firm root in prairie soil and have easily adapted themselves to the modifying influences of the new environment. It must be remembered that the prairie farmer is descended from people who for centuries have had the habit of attending to their own local affairs; and that with all his fondness for paper constitutions and minute written laws, he is but re-enacting, under modified forms, the social arrangements under which the Anglo-Saxon usually insists upon living, wherever you transplant him. The safeguards and maxims of the common law are as truly the heritage of the young Anglo-Saxon in the Mississippi Valley as of his cousin on the Severn or the Thames. The precise forms under which the people of Illinois are to-day governing themselves have been largely shaped by certain facts in the history of the State, and will be best understood in the light of a preliminary historical sketch. Migration from the Atlantic States to the interior and Western States has always followed the parallels of latitude. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Vol. 3: Local Government in Illinois; Reprinted From the Fortnightly Review and ... Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 1, 1882. To get started finding John Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Vol. 3: Local Government in Illinois; Reprinted From the Fortnightly Review and ... Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 1, 1882, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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John Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Vol. 3: Local Government in Illinois; Reprinted From the Fortnightly Review and ... Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 1, 1882

Herbert Baxter Adams
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Description: Excerpt from John Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Vol. 3: Local Government in Illinois; Reprinted From the Fortnightly Review and Local Government in Pennsylvania; Read Before the Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 1, 1882 It is difficult to approach the study of the political systems to-day in operation in the new Western States without a feeling that they are wholly artificial and superimposed inventions rather than growths. Such preconceptions must in good measure yield before a study of the simple facts. Artificial and mathematical as is that checker-board system of local geography which a township map of Illinois depicts, it nevertheless furnishes metes and bounds for local governments which are neither novel nor experimental, but are transplanted scions from older growths of Anglo-Saxon communal life, which have already taken firm root in prairie soil and have easily adapted themselves to the modifying influences of the new environment. It must be remembered that the prairie farmer is descended from people who for centuries have had the habit of attending to their own local affairs; and that with all his fondness for paper constitutions and minute written laws, he is but re-enacting, under modified forms, the social arrangements under which the Anglo-Saxon usually insists upon living, wherever you transplant him. The safeguards and maxims of the common law are as truly the heritage of the young Anglo-Saxon in the Mississippi Valley as of his cousin on the Severn or the Thames. The precise forms under which the people of Illinois are to-day governing themselves have been largely shaped by certain facts in the history of the State, and will be best understood in the light of a preliminary historical sketch. Migration from the Atlantic States to the interior and Western States has always followed the parallels of latitude. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Vol. 3: Local Government in Illinois; Reprinted From the Fortnightly Review and ... Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 1, 1882. To get started finding John Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Vol. 3: Local Government in Illinois; Reprinted From the Fortnightly Review and ... Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 1, 1882, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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