THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH

THE

AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH

BY

JAMES BRYCE

AUTHOR OF "THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE "9

M.P. FOR ABERDEEN

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I

THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT - THE STATE GOVERNMENTS

THIRD EDITION

COMPLETELY REVISED THROUGHOUT

WITH ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1897

All rights reserved

COPYRIGHT, 1893,

BY MACMILLAN AND CO.

Set up and electrotyped March, 1893. Reprinted April,
June, 1893; February, April, September, 1895; March, Novem-
ber, 1896; March, October, 1897.

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