Excerpt from The Divine Right of Democracy, or the People's Right to Rule: A Study in Citizenship Almost every standard work on the origin Of the Constitution and government Of the United States learnedly traces the develop ment Of all the germs Of democracy in Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, Greece, and Rome, through our anglo-saxon ancestors into the English common law, and then from the com mon law to our federal Constitution. But, if they are Roman Catholic in their training, they laboriously belittle the influence Of the English common law in favor of the Roman civil law, and attribute all the growth of the equity idea in our courts to Rome, in order to lay the foundation for a claim that the United States Constitution and federal enactments owe more to the Roman civilization than to the British. 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.