 | Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science - 1886 - 760 pagina’s
...geography or ethnology, when one crosses the line which separates two commonwealths from each other.1 The two natural elements in our system are now the'...commonwealth government is now but a sort of middle instance. Too large for local government, too small for general, it is beginning to be regarded as a meddlesome... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1909 - 490 pagina’s
...States are losing their importance. "The two natural elements in our system are now," he declares, "the Community and the Nation. The former is the point of real local self-government; and in the adjustments of the future these are the forces which will carry with them the determining... | |
 | 1921 - 466 pagina’s
...attained the natural condition of a real national system?'' His answer to his own question was emphatic. "The two natural elements in our system are now the...latter that of general self-government; and in the adjustment of the future these are the forces which will carry with them the determining power. The... | |
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The two natural elements in our system are now the' Community and the Nation. The former is the point of real local self-government ; the latter that of general self-government ; and in the adjustments of the future these are the forces which will carry... 