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| ISBN: | 9780813162904
0813162904
0813152321
9780813152325
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary: | 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 sel.
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| Other form: | Print version: Frakes, George Edward. Laboratory for Liberty : The South Carolina Legislative Committee System 1719--1776. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813152325
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