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CONTENTS. ,
Page Inquiry into the Powers of a Sovereign Government ... 1
An Essay on the Government op Dependencies.
CHAPTER I. .
Definition of a Dependency and of a Subordinate Government 70
CHAPTER II. Examples of Dependencies 96
§ 1.— Dependencies of the Oriental Monarchies and of
the Ancient Republics ib.
§ 2. — Dependencies of the European States in modern
times 135
CHAPTER III. On the modes in which a Dependency may be acquired . . 167
CHAPTER IV. Reasons for governing a Territory as a Dependency . . . 180
CHAPTER V.
Separateness of a Dependency, as arising from the peculiarities
of its legal system 189
CHAPTER VI.
Advantages derived by the Dominant Country from its su- premacy over a Dependency 211 "^
