Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 216 pages)
,
portrait
Edition:
Revised edition with an introduction / by Jacob Gould Schurman, A.M., D. Sc., LL. D., President, Cornell University
Series Statement:
Universal Classics library
Uniform Title:
Government of dependencies (essay : Online)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lewis, George Cornewall, Sir, 1806-1863 Government of dependencies
DDC:
304
Keywords:
Colonies Administration
;
Colonization
;
Colonies - Administration
;
Colonisation
;
colonization
;
Colonies - Administration
;
Colonization
;
essays
;
Essays
;
Essays
;
Essais
Description / Table of Contents:
Inquiry into the powers of a sovereign government -- Definition of a dependency and of a subordinate government -- Examples of dependencies -- On the modes in which dependencies may be acquired -- Reasons for governing a territory as a dependency -- Separateness of a dependency, as arising from the peculiarities of its legal system -- Advantages derived by the dominant country from its supremacy over a dependency -- Advantages derived by a dependency from its dependency on the dominant country -- Disadvantages arising to the dominant country from the possession of a dependency -- Disadvantages arising to a dependency from its dependence on the dominant country -- The respective inconveniences of the various forms which may be given to the immediate government of a dependency -- How a dependency may cease to exist as such, or may lose its distinctive character.
Note:
Includes index
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