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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frakes, George Edward, 1932- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Carolina--Politics and government--To 1775.

South Carolina.

South Carolina. General Assembly--Committees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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 self-g

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6290-4

OCLC:

574240566