1. Origins of American Politics: A Summary and Review
Colver Lectures at Brown University. ... A large part of the lectures deal partially or directly in answering the specific question: "what differences were there between the political processes in eighteenth-century America and eighteenth-century England that could explain the significantly different receptions of the same political ideas?"... The history of government is the history of the formal institutions and procedures which create and govern legal authority. The history of politics is the history of the ways men have used such institutions and the struggles for authority between rivalri...
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