Description: Lectures On The Principles of Local Government. Delivered at The London School of Economics Lent Term 1897.George Laurence GommePublished by Archibald Constable and Co., London, 1897. First edition. From the library of the Author's third son, Arthur Allan Gomme (1882-1955) librarian, historian of technology and folklorist, with his bookplate to the inner cover. Bound in the publisher's hardcover green boards with gilt titles to the spine, with Times Book Club motif to the lower spine (1905). Spine ends a little bumped. Pages age toned, but generally clean and tight. xv +267pp. Good+ overall, no jacket. From the Introduction - This series of lectures was designed to set forth, if possible, the lines upon which the principles of local government should be studied. At present, principles of local government are not, in this country, considered at all. There is a vague sort of idea that local government is a good thing for Parliament to occupy itself with, but there is no serious attempt to consider it as a subject which is governed by principles and not by fancy, which should not therefore be left to the sudden energy of Parliaments desiring to be busy with something new. I cannot, and do not, pretend that my effort is any- thing more than an effort in the right direction. If it turns out to be that, if it should prove to be useful in directing attention to the subject, and bringing about a general desire to ascertain and formulate the principles of local government, sufficient success will have attended it. In the limits of a term it has not been possible to discuss all the stages of my arguments so as to show the evidence upon which they are founded ; and accordingly it will appear as if the method adopted to set the matter before my hearers were purely and simply the a priori method of the analytical jurists. It would be presumption on my part to adopt such a method. I have no right to speak ex cathedra on such a subject. And every step of my argument is in reality built up of a large mass of evidence, which I have been examining, both as a student and as an official, for the past twenty years. I cannot set forth this evidence, but I purpose to give a few notes of its chief heads to help the student in the understanding of the lectures — notes similar in effect to those viva voce explanations which were from time to time inter- lineated during the delivery of the lectures, or which formed the substance of answers to the queries of the students after each lecture. I practically begin my lectures with a differentiation into two classes of the several kinds of local government found in England at the present day. These two classes are the historical, consisting of counties, boroughs, and parishes, and the legislative, consisting of unions and districts. But in describing them I have called them by terms which leave out of sight their origin in historical or legislative times, and bring into prominence their place, or assumed place, as types of local government ; that is, I call them respectively local government properly so-called, and quasi-local government. Now the justification for these terms is, I suggest, fully brought out in the course of the lectures, but it will be useful to state shortly what that justification is.---------------------------------------------One of a number of similar items I am selling. Check out the other items in my eBay shop. Postage is always combined wherever possible.OVERSEAS BIDDERS - PLEASE CONTACT ME PRIOR TO PURCHASE TO CONFIRM SHIPPING COSTS AS THEY MAY BE HIGHER THAN THOSE QUOTED-------------------------------------------- DSR's: If you have any issue with your purchase, please contact me BEFORE leaving feedback. 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Binding: Hardback
Personalised: No
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military
Signed: No
Publisher: Archibald Constable & Co.
Weight: 850g
Year Printed: 1897
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Fiction Subject: Short Stories & Anthologies
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: George Laurence Gomme
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
