PREFACE THIS work is based upon a great mass of material, collected in the course of an investigation of the history and characteristics of representative government which I carried on for several years in the Politics Seminary of Princeton University, with the assistance of graduate students working under my direction. I make to them my grateful acknowledgments of their zealous coöperation. My thanks are due also to my colleague, Professor Edward S. Corwin, who read the work in manuscript and made valuable suggestions. H. J. F. PRINCETON, N. J. CONTENTS II. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY INQUEST III. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY HISTORIANS. IV. INCEPTION OF THE TEUTONIC THEORY V. THE THEORY IN ENGLAND: ITS START APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VII: THE WAR LORD VIII. THE DOCTRINE SAPPED BY THE ECONOMISTS |