The American Commonwealth: Vol. 2: The State GovernmentsJazzybee Verlag, 2017 - 496 páginas Professor Bryce's work rises at once to an eminent place among studies of great nations and their institutions. It is, so far as America goes, a work unique in scope, spirit, and knowledge. There is nothing like it anywhere extant, nothing that approaches it. Without exaggeration, it may be called the most considerable and gratifying tribute that has yet been bestowed upon America by an Englishman, and, perhaps, by even England herself. . . . One despairs in an attempt to give an adequate account of a work so infused with knowledge and sparkling with Suggestion. Every thoughtful American will read it, and will long hold in grateful remembrance its author's name. It is a work that takes instant rank as the keenest critique and most trustworthy description of America's social and political life and is recognized as the most remarkable among English books for the accuracy of its statements, its fairness of judgment, and its clearness of comprehension. Written with full knowledge by a distinguished Englishman to dispel vulgar prejudices and to help kindred people to understand each other better, Prof. Bryce's work is in a sense an embassy of peace, a message of good-will from one nation to another.
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... York via Philadelphia and Chicago to San Francisco, though he passes in his journey of 3000 miles over the territories of eleven self-governing commonwealths, hardly notices the fact. He uses one coinage and one post-office; he is ...
... York, with 5,997,853 inhabitants, to Nevada, with 45,761. That is to say, the largest State is much larger than either France or the Germanic Empire; the most populous much more populous than Sweden, or Portugal, or Denmark, while the ...
... York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland different from both; while in recent times the stream of European immigration has filled some States with Irishmen, others with Germans, others with Scandinavians, and has left most of the Southern ...
... York City one-fourth that of the State of New York. But the State might in either case extinguish the municipality, and govern the city by a single State commissioner appointed for the purpose, or leave it without any government ...
... York when he returns from a tour in Europe. His direct taxes are paid to officials acting under State laws. The State, or a local authority constituted by State statutes, registers his birth, appoints his guardian, pays for his ...
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THE LEGISLATURE | |
THE STATE EXECUTIVE | |
THE STATE JUDICIARY | |
STATE FINANCE | |
STATE POLITICS | |
THE TERRITORIES | |
LOCAL GOVERNMENT | |
OBSERVATIONS ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT | |
THE GOVERNMENT OF CITIES | |
THE WORKING OF CITY GOVERNMENTS | |
AN AMERICAN VIEW OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES | |
APPENDIX | |