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Excerpt from Feudalism in American Politics It is a thing pleasing to every patriotic man that the young men of this nation are displaying an increasing activity in poli tics. As the country grows richer and the people become more settled in habits and customs, a larger share of popular attention is naturally given to public affairs. Colleges and universities, through their courses of study in the political and social sciences, are forming an educated public opinion in men trained to reason and to think; and the participation of such men in the discussion of present day problems will add tremendously to their right so lution. Under the general subject, Feudalism in American Politics, certain baneful and dangerous tendencies will be con sidered, not because the evil situation is a hopeless one, but be cause its efficacious remedy can be so easily applied. It is not intended to present a pessimistic or unwholesome View of politic al conditions in America. On the contrary, the purpose is to arouse in capable hearts an aspiration for the destruction of pub lic abuses through a saving sense of civic obligation. Politics is government. The right to govern in America is not placed in one man, as in a monarchy, nor in a few men, as in an oligarchy, but it is the heritage which every citizen receives from the fathers. The fatal neglect of that heritage invites its decay. Its preservation requires that every American should be in politics, - not for office, for that is the last thing a young man should seek, - l)ut to guard the State. While some progress has been made in establishing a civil service in this country, there is no permanent tenure, and no assured promotion in public life. With every change of government, thousands of experienced men are dismissed without due cause, only to find themselves un fitted for the exacting requirements of private business life. In England it is not so. Take a single department there - the Col onial office of Great Britain. There are twenty-four clerks in that of'fice.cvery one a graduate of either Oxford or Cambridge, with a degree as high at least as m.a. These men are retained atgood salaries until superannuated, and they handle and direct all the potent colonial energies of that mighty empire. The Col onial Secretary may or may not be an able statesman; in either case he knows but little of the details of his own administration. In England when a young man aspires to a public career, he is graduated from the university, and duly enters Parliament. If he displays signal ability he becomes a permanent figure in po litical life. When one is invited to dinner to meet the public servants of England, he knows that he will come in contact with men trained to great affairs; the empire can offer him no more stimulating intercourse. Here it is different. Our public men rise to view for a moment, and then disappear. We have no diplomatic service, and the great embassies and missions are be stowed as the spoils of victory, frequently on men who are over weighted by their honors. There is but one exception, for cus tom now demands that our ambassador to Great Britain must be the most eminent available man in this Republic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Our Benevolent Feudalism Most of the reviewing journals have now given their judgment upon this book. But the verdict, it must be confessed, is indecisive. There is not an aspect of the argument which has not been variously viewed; and there has been scarcely a judgment expressed in any quarter which has not been contra dicted in some other. The reader who ingeniously suspects the book's purpose to be revolutionary, may suppose that blame will have come solely from the conservatives and praise from the radicals. But a look over the comments reveals no such line of cleavage; for the radicals have Often censured, and the conservatives have Often, though guardedly, commended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Influence of the Feudal System on the Formation of Political Character: The Stanhope Prize Essay for 1863 The leading fact of the feudal system was the tenure of land on certain conditions existing mutually between the lord and the vassal. Tenure somewhat similar, and even on the terms of military service, had existed in the Roman colonies, and indeed in a more perfect form among the tribes of Scythia. But the resident feudal lord owning the land around his castle, which was cultivated by vassals who paid him with their service, represented an historical period and a class new to the history of the world. The absence of domestic slavery would in itself have been sufficient to prevent the new world from being a repetition of the old. In modern times the disturbing element has been the lowest class. The upheaval from below is more dangerous than any changes on the surface. But a slave country has no such lowest class. The greatest social and political pro hlems of modern days never rise for solution in it. The whole mass of its people creates an upper, and therefore to a certain extent an equal class. Such a class must either govern or be governed as a mass. If it is found in a nation which is centralised in a city, it forms the plebs of Rome or the demos of Athens; if it becomes a nation and not an imperial city, it must submit to a Caesar. For the modern world, for nations which were nations from the beginning, ancient freedom was an impossibility. Not so however ancient ty ranny. And feudalism was the cause which saved the modern world from ancient tyranny. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Next Step: A Benevolent Feudalism It lies with the popular mandate to de termine which of two powerful tenden cies is to be supported - the one making for Industrial Democracy and the other making for Industrial Oligarchy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Political Cleavage of North America: An Address The continuation of the feudal system, which to the French Seigniors of the day was a matter of great moment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Fall of Feudalism in France Sufficiently clear in the footnotes to this book. But I cannot forbear to make special mention of M. Ph. Sagnac, the reading of whose admirable Législatz'on civile de la Révolutz'on frangm'se first set me studying the economic aspects of the Revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Traditional theories of American political development depict the American state as a thoroughly liberal state from its very inception. In this book, first published in 1992, Karen Orren challenges that account by arguing that a remnant of ancient feudalism was, in fact, embedded in the American governmental system, in the form of the law of master and servant, and persisted until well into the twentieth century. The law of master and servant was, she reveals, incorporated in the US Constitution and administered from democratic politics. The fully legislative polity that defines the modern liberal state was achieved in America, Orren argues, only through the initiatives of the labor movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was finally ushered in as part of the processes of collective bargaining instituted by the New Deal. This book represents a fundamental reinterpretation of constitutional change in the United States and of the role of American organized labor, which is shown to be a creator of liberalism, rather than a spoiler of socialism.
Annotation. Feudal Society discusses the economic and social conditions in which feudalism developed providing a deep understanding of the processes at work in medieval Europe.