The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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IMPERIAL ADMINISTRATION 885 remarkable. Rome did indeed allow—with a half-contemp- tuous indifference—the subject peoples to retain their own customs and religions, but she encroached more and more upon the political liberties of her most cherished allies, till all were embraced™n the iron grasp of one great administrative system. England has set herself from the first to carry out nd a devolution of authority to the largest extent possible. In gs ol 1619 King James granted a constitution under which English- pd men living in Virginia were able to express their views as to Zou ; the manner in which the government of the colony should be carried on, In one after another of the territories which have been planted since that time, governmental institutions, on the model of those at home, have been created ; and efforts are made, not only to enable Englishmen to retain the practice of self-government in their new homes, but to train subject peoples for the discharge of similar responsibilities. As English constitutional liberties have developed, the type of government which is created in the new countries has been modified. The government of the American colonies reflected the ideas of the Stuart monarchy; while the new nineteenth century colonies have been modelled on demo- cratic lines, where authority lies in the hands of a cabinet which is responsible to the citizens for its measures. The contrast is noticeable, too, when we look not merely at the diffusion of political power in the English Empire but at the character of the civil administration. The creation of and te administrative machinery was the great feature of English incorrupt economic history in the middle of last century, and a oi corresponding change was taking place in the government of of ell the country and her dependencies. There are areas where tation the older type of administration survives, and the officials of a royal household are responsible for the control of public affairs; there is still a castle in Dublin. But, on the whole, it is true that the method of selecting the personelle of the administration throughout the various parts of the Empire is wholly appropriate to a democratic realm. The Roman Empire was governed by an official class; there i® always a danger that such a caste may become the slave of its own traditions, or that it should avail itself of opportunities of

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