UID:
almafu_9959236993002883
Format:
1 online resource (214 p.)
ISBN:
0-8131-6290-4
Content:
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 self-g
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Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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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
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-60232-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8131-5232-1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
