Laboratory for Liberty: The South Carolina Legislative Committee System 1719-1776 Contributor(s): Frakes, George Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813152321 ISBN-13: 9780813152325 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - Political Science | American Government - State |
Dewey: 328.757 |
Lexile Measure: 1550 |
Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6" W x 9" (0.71 lbs) 218 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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-government emerged in South Carolina. Solid, penetrating, the book offers new depths of insight into an important process that had vital importance to the growth of representative government in America. |