Laboratory for Liberty: The South Carolina Legislative Committee System 1719-1776 - Softcover

Frakes, George Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813152321 ISBN 13: 9780813152325

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

George E. Frakes is chairman of the Department of History at Santa Barbara City College.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0813152321
• ISBN 13: 9780813152325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218