The North American Review, Vol. 243

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Excerpt from The North American Review, Vol. 243: Founded 1815 There has probably been no time in the last one hundred and fifty years when our political institutions were subjected to such careful analysis and severe criticism as at this moment. Because our complacency was shattered by the panic of 1929 and its aftermath, we have since then searched every possibility and indulged in many flights of fancy in the hope of finding the cause of our troubles and the cure of our disease. In the search, conducted for the most part with deep sincerity, we have suffered from over familiarity with the subject and proximity to the events which we would understand. Perhaps that is why it took an Englishman, Lord Bryce, to present a lucid analysis of our Government and its functions. As Lord Bryce and all of the other commentators have pointed out, the essence of the American political system is government by laws in contrast to government by men. There were many things which the founding fathers did not understand but they did perceive with astonishing clarity the weaknesses of human nature. They had seen their country subjected to the whims of the King and of his cabinet and they were determined to devise a system which would protect the people from themselves and from their leaders, above all from that most commonplace of human failings, the faculty of going off at half cock. 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.