03564nam 2200589 450 991046069430332120200520144314.00-8131-6290-4(CKB)3710000000334589(EBL)1915793(SSID)ssj0001434889(PQKBManifestationID)11840864(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001434889(PQKBWorkID)11441599(PQKB)11772409(MiAaPQ)EBC1915793(OCoLC)574240566(MdBmJHUP)muse44310(Au-PeEL)EBL1915793(CaPaEBR)ebr11005417(CaONFJC)MIL691514(OCoLC)900345199(EXLCZ)99371000000033458920150120h19701970 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLaboratory for liberty the south carolina legislative committee system 1719-1776 /George Edward FrakesLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1970.©19701 online resource (214 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-60232-8 0-8131-5232-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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, 1749-1764CHAPTER 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, 1721-1776APPENDIX 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; YThis 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-gSouth CarolinaPolitics and governmentTo 1775Electronic books.328.757/0765Frakes George Edward1932-1049662MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460694303321Laboratory for liberty2478871UNINA