An Introduction to the Study of the Government of Modern States (Classic Reprint)

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The present work seeks to do two things: to set forth the problem of government as a problem; and to show how the leading States of the world have in practice met it. It is easy for students to learn a mass of facts regarding the structural character of different governments. It is exceedingly difficult, however, for them to interpret these facts, to see the fundamental principles lying back of them, and of which they are but the expression; in a word, to grasp the real significance of the differences in governmental organization and procedure and the consequences resulting therefrom. This difficulty arises from, or at least is aggravated by, the fact that government, as generally taught, is so preeminently a matter of description. Students are usually at once introduced to the study of particular governments without first having been given that background of knowledge of fundamental political principles which alone will enable them intelligently to interpret the facts learned.
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