The Miscellaneous Writings of John Fiske: With Many Portraits of Illustrious Philosophers, Scientists, and Other Men of Note, Volume 12

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Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902 - Philosophy
LC copy incomplete: v. 12 only. Vols. 1-4. Outlines of cosmic philosophy -- v. 5 Myths and myth-makers -- v. 6. The unseen world and other essays -- v. 7. Excursions of an evolutionist -- v. 8. Darwinism and other essays -- v. 9. Studies in religion -- v. 10. A century of science -- v. 11. The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War -- v. 12. Civil government in the United States.
 

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Contents

The rate of taxation
32
The townmeeting in Michigan
35
III
46
Ealdorman and sheriff shiremote and county court 52
52
Justices of the peace and trial justices
59
grants
61
The county was the unit of representation
66
The countyseat or Court House
69
Various Local Systems
85
Effects of the Ordinance of 1787
87
THE CITY
105
Origin of English Boroughs and Cities
111
117
118
Government of the city of New York before the
124
Illustrated by list of municipal officers in Boston 133
133
Committees inefficient for executive purposes
139
Power and responsibility
143
Necessity of separating municipal from national poli
145
Representative government is necessitated in a county
149
The spoils system must be destroyed root
151
Dissolution of the two companies
155
The London and Plymouth Companies 153
159
setts
161
Proprietary charter of Pennsylvania
167
Changes after the Revolution
172
The governors council was a kind of upper house
173
Origin of the senates
177
The State Governments
242
The electoral commission 1877
247
Circumstances favourable to the union of the colonies
252
Executive departments the cabinet
259
The Elastic Clause
266
Need for a federal judiciary
273
Concessions to the South
277
Origin of American political parties strict and loose
283
There is nothing especially American democratic
285
The Australian ballot
289
Origin of the Township
294
Their common charter 154 155
309
B The Constitution of the United States
321
Magna Charta
352
Social position of the settlers
357
Townmeetings in ancient Greece and Rome
361
55 56
366
ment
376
Part of the Bill of Rights 1689
379
F The States classified according to origin
391
Later modifications
393
The state executive
415
Provisions against a lapse of the presidency
419
Local institutions in colonial Maryland the hundred
420
The Continental Congress 177489
424
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TitleThe Miscellaneous Writings of John Fiske: With Many Portraits of Illustrious Philosophers, Scientists, and Other Men of Note, Volume 12
The Miscellaneous Writings of John Fiske: With Many Portraits of Illustrious Philosophers, Scientists, and Other Men of Note, John Fiske
AuthorJohn Fiske
PublisherHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1902
Original fromthe University of California
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