Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 5
3. Table of Contents 7
4. I. Local Government in the Early Settlement 9
5. II. Eighteenth Century Development 42
6. III. The Revolutionary Period 100
7. IV. A Period of Evolution, 1788–1851 155
8. V. Reform, Reconstruction, and Restoration 227
9. VI. The Convention of 1901–1902 304
10. Appendix, Institutional Summary 345
11. Bibliography 349
12. Index 353