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Political Institutions in Liberia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

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Liberia will long be a source of permanent interest to the government and people of the United States, not only because it was founded and fostered by American citizens, but because there is going on there in the interest of the African races one of the unique struggles in modern state-building, in an endeavor to perpetuate in West Africa a government fashioned after the American democracy in which liberty shall be limited and regulated by law.

Under the most unfavorable circumstances the Liberian people have entered upon a grave and stupendous undertaking. The high political ideas and principles which they represent, the ardor and fidelity with which they have maintained them for nearly three quarters of a century against European opposition and in the midst and in the presence of the overwhelming numbers and dissimilar civilization of their African kinsmen, entitle them to the sympathetic consideration and good will of all liberty-loving nations.

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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1911

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2 Counsellor T. McCants Stewart has recently been appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, indicating the increasing prospects for judicial reform.

3 Since the nomination for President new and aggressive opposition has developed through the division in the Whig party.

4 Secretary Howard was nominated and is the regular Whig candidate for the Presidency. Vice President Dossen has been nominated by the National Union Party, a new political organization, and a spirited campaign will be closed May 5, 1911.

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