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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820253603321

Autore

Frakes George Edward <1932->

Titolo

Laboratory for liberty : the south carolina legislative committee system 1719-1776 / / George Edward Frakes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1970

©1970

ISBN

0-8131-6290-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Disciplina

328.757/0765

Soggetti

South Carolina Politics and government To 1775

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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