Article presents an analysis of James Bryce's discussion of the Oklahoma Constitution and provides a new perspective on the political climate of the statehood era.
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Article presents an analysis of James Bryce's discussion of the Oklahoma Constitution and provides a new perspective on the political climate of the statehood era.
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Abstract: European intellectuals such as Alexis de Tocqueville have commented on life and politics in the United States since the country's beginning. Victorian jurist, historian, and politician, James Bryce wrote extensively about the political system in the United States. Quentin Taylor's analysis of Bryce's discussion of the Oklahoma Constitution provides a new perspective on the political climate of the statehood era.
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The Chronicles of Oklahoma
The Chronicles of Oklahoma is the scholarly journal published by the Oklahoma Historical Society. It is a quarterly publication and was first published in 1921.
Correction section from Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014. It includes two corrections to Volume 92, Number 2, Summer 2014. The spine of Volume 92 Number 2 erroneously lists the issue as the winter issue. In "Oklahoma in James Bryce's The American Commonwealth," the editor should be listed as Davis Joyce in endnote 68.