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Read Ebook: Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins by Fiske John
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev PageEbook has 819 lines and 113185 words, and 17 pagesThe township as the "unit of representation" in the shire-mote and in the General Court Contrast with the Russian village-community which is not represented in the general government QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS AND DIRECTIONS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THE COUNTY. Why do we have counties? Clans and tribes The English nation, like the American, grew out of the union of small states Ealdorman and sheriff; shire-mote and county court The coroner, or "crown officer" Justices of the peace; the Quarter Sessions; the lord lieutenant Decline of the English county; beginnings of counties in Massachusetts QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT County commissioners, etc.; shire-towns and court-houses Justices of the peace, and trial justices The sheriff QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT Virginia sparsely settled; extensive land grants to individuals Navigable rivers; absence of towns; slavery Social position of the settlers Virginia parishes; the vestry was a close corporation Powers of the vestry The county was the unit of representation The county court was virtually a close corporation The county-seat, or Court House Powers of the court; the sheriff The county-lieutenant Contrast between old Virginia and old New England, in respect of local government Jefferson's opinion of township government "Court-day" in old Virginia Virginia has been prolific in great leaders QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS AND DIRECTIONS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY. Parishes in South Carolina The back country; the "regulators" The district system The modern South Carolina county The counties are too large Tendency of the school district to develop into something like a township Local institutions in colonial Maryland; the hundred Clans; brotherhoods, or phratries; and tribes Origin of the hundred; the hundred court; the high constable Decay of the hundred; hundred-meeting in Maryland The hundred in Delaware; the levy court, or representative county assembly The old Pennsylvania county Town-meetings in New Tort The county board of supervisors QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT Westward movement of population along parallels of latitude Method of surveying the public lands Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev Page |
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