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Excerpt from Defective and Corrupt Legislation, Vol. 22: The Cause and the Remedy Much of this thought-stagnation, on so important a subject, is doubtless due to the confidence that was felt, until the outbreak of the Civil War, that the organizers of our government were so wise in their application of the theories of government to practice that we could dispense for all time with thinking on the subject, and that, somehow, this department of human activity was an exception to the law of evolution and progress. We were taught to believe that governmental questions were solved for us by a superior intelligence. This indulgence in a fetichism which has. 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.