Laboratory for liberty : the South Carolina legislative committee system, 1719-1776.
This comprehensive study highlights the importance of legislative and extralegal committees in the political and institutional development of early American history, showing how the colonial experience modified a basic British institution, using it in the cause of legislative supremacy and, eventual...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1970. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Frakes, George Edward, |d 1932- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Laboratory for liberty : |b the South Carolina legislative committee system, 1719-1776. |
| 260 | |a Lexington : |b University Press of Kentucky, |c 1970. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (214 pages) | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyrights; Contents; Foreword; CHAPTER I The Background of the Legislative Committee System; CHAPTER II The Development of Legislative Committees in the Commons House of Assembly; CHAPTER III The Legislative Committee System in the Early Royal Period, 1719-1725; CHAPTER IV The Legislative Committee System in a Period of Western Expansion, 1727-1737; CHAPTER V The Legislative Committee System in Peace and Frontier Conflict, 1737-1748; CHAPTER VI Committees and Legislative Supremacy in a Second Era of Frontier Conflict, 1749-1764. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a CHAPTER VII Legislative Committees and the Road to Revolution, 1764-1774CHAPTER VIII Revolutionary Committee Activity, 1774-1776; APPENDIX I Committee Assignments and Memberships in the South Carolina Commons House of Assembly under the Revolutionary Government, 1720-1721; APPENDIX II Committee Assignments and Memberships in the South Carolina Commons House of Assembly during Selected Segments of the Royal Period, 1721-1776. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a APPENDIX III Geographic Distribution of, Assignments to, and Membership of Selected Important Legislative Committees of the South Carolina Commons House of Assembly, 1736-1739BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. | |
| 520 | |a This comprehensive study highlights the importance of legislative and extralegal committees in the political and institutional development of early American history, showing how the colonial experience modified a basic British institution, using it in the cause of legislative supremacy and, eventually, independence. The book illuminates the role played by committees in the growth of colonial self-government, tracing the committee system to its origins in the parliamentary committees of medieval England, then following the permutations of the committee system through the decades in which sel. | ||
| 506 | |a Access limited to authorized users. | ||
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a South Carolina. |b General Assembly |x Committees. |
| 651 | 0 | |a South Carolina |x Politics and government |y To 1775. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Frakes, George Edward. |t Laboratory for Liberty : The South Carolina Legislative Committee System 1719--1776. |d Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 |z 9780813152325 |
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