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Title: Abraham Lincoln and constitutional government
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Ulrich, Bartow A. (Bartow Adolphus), 1840- Wood, Erwin Elisha, 1848- (from old catalog) comp
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Constitutions Political science
Publisher: (Chicago) Chicago legal news
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Part IIConstitutional Government Preface PREFACE Government by a written constitution, as now understood, inplace of a personal government, or Sovereignty, has been a factorof slow and bitterly contested growth for promoting the libertyof the individual and a representative government, in oppositionto monarchical precedents. This plan of government or an idealRepublic has long existed in the minds of men and has struggledfor realization for centuries. It was foreshadowed in the old Ro-man and Greek republics and in the various charters granted bykings of England from William the First, (1066-1089) until 1215,when King John was compelled to grant the written MagnaCharta at Runnymede. It was later introduced in the articlesof confederation between the forest cantons of Uri, Schwyzand Unterwalden in 1291, which confederation was graduallybuilt up subsequently through the annexation of new cantonsuntil now twenty-two comprise the republic of Switzerland. This scheme of government, however

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