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Excerpt from The Origin and Development of Local Self-Government: In England and the United States
Recent investigations have shown that the Teutonic communities of freemen described by Caesar and Tacitus, and from which Montesquieu said the Eng lish borrowed their idea of political government, were substantially the same as the village communities found among other races at a certain stage in their social development. Traces of the institution are discoverable everywhere from China to Peru. 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.
