Modern political institutions
By: by Simeon E. Baldwin ...
Publisher: Little, Brown and company
Published: 1898
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States -- States; Corporations; Crime; United States -- Politics and government
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: The centenary of modern government.; title: The first century's changes in our state constitutions.; title: Absolute power, an American institution.; title: The exemption of the accused from examination in criminal proceedings.; title: Freedom of incorporation.; title: American jurisprudence.; title: The decadence of the legal fiction.; title: The recognition of habitual criminals as a class to be treated by itself.; title: The defence by the state of suits attacking testamentary charities.; title: Salaries for members of the legislature.; title: Permanent courts for international arbitration.; title: The Monroe doctrine in 1898.