Causes of the Civil War in America

ISBN: 9781440094927 出版年：2016 页码：41 John Lothrop Motley Forgotten Books

The Continental Congress, which was the central ad ministrative board during this epoch, was a diet of envoys from sovereign states. It had no power to actors individuals. It could not command the states. It could move only by requisitions and recommendations. Its functions were essentially diplomatic, like those of the States General of the old Dutch republic, like those of the modern Germanic confederation.