Popular Government: Four Essays

By Henry James Sumner Maine and Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

Book Overview

Examines the political institutions of men. The author explains that popular governments, unless they are founded upon and consonant with the evolutionary development of a people, will crumble from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1410212637
• ISBN13: 9781410212634
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"

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."