JOHN W. BURGESS, PH.D., LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW,
AND DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE,
IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

WITH MAPS

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1910

To the memory
of
my former teacher, colleague, and friend,
JULIUS HAWLEY SEELYE,
philosopher, theologian, statesman, and educator,
this volume is reverently
and affectionately
inscribed