Essay on the Government of Dependencies

Klappentext A discussion of the political interactions between a dependent government and the superior government, first published in 1841. Zusammenfassung Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1806–1863) was a British politician and scholar who was appointed Home Secretary in 1859. This volume, first published in 1841, contains Lewis'sdiscussion of the political interactions between a dependent government and its superior government, and the advantages and disadvantages of this arrangement to both. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Inquiry into the powers of a sovereign government; 1. Definition of a dependency and of a subordinate government; 2. Examples of dependencies; 3. On the modes in which a dependency may be acquired; 4. Reasons for governing a territory as a dependency; 5. Separateness of a dependency, as arising from the peculiarities of its legal system; 6. Advantages derived by the dominant country from its supremacy over a dependency; 7. Advantages derived by a dependency from its dependence on the dominant country; 8. Disadvantages arising to the dominant country from its supremacy over a dependency; 9. Disadvantages arising to a dependency from its dependence on the dominant country; 10. The respective inconveniences of the various forms which can be given to the immediate government of a dependency; 11. How a dependency may cease to exist as such, or may lose its distinctive character; Notes.

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• Authors: George Cornewall Lewis, Sir George Cornewall Lewis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.11.2010
• EAN: 9781108023474
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02347-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state