Excerpt from Local Government in England, Vol. 1 of 2 English Constitution secures him a lasting monument in the German school of political science; though his exposition of the modern English State is proved erroneous in many and important points, though his theory of Self Government is shown to be one great mistake, though his. Influence on German constitutional doctrine and law appears to have been rather unfavourable to their progressive development. Gneist's theories, which are expounded and criticised in the third and last part of this book, must be regarded as fruit on the tree of the politico-metaphysical speculation of Hegel and Lorenz von Stein; and not less as the consequence of a certain doctrinairism, which is peculiar to Gneist in common With the Whole famous historical school of the German science of law to which he belongs. It is the aim and purpose of the following pages to give, in contradiction to those methods, a realistic view of the evolution of English local government generally, and especially of its modern structure in law and practice. 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.