Popular Government

by Henry James Sumner Maine and Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

Book Overview

Sir Henry Sumner Maine was one of the great intellects of the Victorian era. In Popular Government he examines the political institutions of men. He saw that popular governments, unless they are founded upon and consonant with the evolutionary development of a people, will crumble from their own excesses.

George W. Carey is Professor of Government at Georgetown University and editor of the Political Science...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913966150
• ISBN13: 9780913966150
• Release Date: July 1977
• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5

Customer Reviews

Unpopular Government

"The most ignorant and vicious of European populations, including necessarily a vast number of the criminal class; people who come here not to become good citizens, but to prey upon our people and our industries; a class utterly without character and incapable of understanding or appreciating our institutions, and therefore a menace to our commonwealth."