The State - Taschenbuch

THE STATE ELEMENTS OF HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL POLITICS BT WOODROW WILSON, PH. D., LL. D. PROFESSOR OF JURISPRUDENCE AND POLITIC IN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EDITION D. C. HEATH CO., PUBLIC BOSTON NEW YORK TABLE OF CONTENTS. Topical Analysis .......................................... vii Preface ...... . ........................... . ............... xxxiii I. The Earliest Forms of Government ................. ......... 1 II. The Governments of Greece ................................ 26 III. The Government of Rome ............................ . ..... 91 f IV. Roman Dominion and Roman Law .......................... 142 V. Teutonic Polity and Government during the Middle Ages. ..... 162 VI. The Government of France ................................. 198 VII. The Governments of Germany .............................. 247 VIII. The Governments of Switzerland ............................ 300 IX. The Dual Monarchies Austria-Hungary, Sweden-Norway ..... 333 X. The Government of Great Britain ....... .................... 364 XI. The Government of the United States ........................ 438 XII. Summary Constitutional and Administrative Developments . . 665 XIII. The Nature and Forms of Government ................ . ...... 672 XIV. Law Its Nature and Development .......................... 687 XV. The Functions of Government .............................. 612 XVI. The Objects of Government ................................. 629 Index .................................... . ................ 641 TOPICAL ANALYSIS. 8RO. I. The Early Forms of Government, 1-42 The Nature of the Question 1 The Races to be studied the Aryans 2 Semitic and Turanian Instance 3 Government rested First upon Kinship 4 Early Historyof the Family Was it originally Patriarchal 6 The Evidence 6 The Warrantable Conclusion 7 From the Patriarchal Family to the State 8 Prepossessions to be put away 9 The State and the Land 10 Contract vs. Status 13 Theories Concerning the Origin of the State the Contract Theory 14 Traditions of an Original Lawgiver 15 r Aieory of the Divine Origin of the State 16 The Theories and the Facts 17 The Truth in the Theories 19 Conclusion 20 The Beginnings of Government 21 The Family the Primal Unit 22 Persistence of the Idea of Kinship 23 Fictitious Kinship Adoption 24 Kinship and Religion 26 The Bonds of Religion and Precedent 26 The Reign of Custom 27 Fixity of System the Rule, Change the Exception 28 Changes of System outrun Changes of Idea 29 How did Change enter 30 Differences of Custom 31 Antagonism between Customs 32 Competition of Customs 33 The Better Prevail 34 Isolation, Stagnation 35 Movement and Change in the West 36 Migration and Conquest 37 vii Vlll TOPICAL ANALYSIS. 8X0...