Laboratory for Liberty

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Laboratory for Liberty is written by George Edward Frakes and published by University Press of Kentucky. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0813187982 (ISBN 10) and 9780813187983 (ISBN 13).

This comprehensive study highlights the importance of legislative and extralegal committees in the political and institutional development of early American history, showing how the colonial experience modified a basic British institution, using it in the cause of legislative supremacy and, eventually, independence. The book illuminates the role played by committees in the growth of colonial self-government, tracing the committee system to its origins in the parliamentary committees of medieval England, then following the permutations of the committee system through the decades in which self-government emerged in South Carolina. Solid, penetrating, the book offers new depths of insight into an important process that had vital importance to the growth of representative government in America.