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ACADEMIC BOOKS TEND to take longer than they have any right to, and they involve small armies of helpers. The list of people who provided me with helpful guidance and comments along the way, sometimes unknowingly, includes George Quester, Virginia Haufler, Mac Destler, Dennis Pirages, Warren Phillips, Ted Gurr, Adm. William Crowe, Michael Nacht, Ivo Daalder, Karen Dawisha, Kevin McGrath, David Clinton, Jeff Stacey, Derek Reveron, Andy Stigler, Dave Burbach,TerryRoehrig,PaulSmith,TomFedyszyn,RickNorton,JoanJohnsonFreese , Peter Burns, Donald Sylvan, Ted Hopf, Maria Fanis, and Dominic Tierney . My thanks go to each. It is a pity that convention does not allow me to blame them for my errors and oversights. Most of all, my sincere thanks go to John Mueller, America’s most important living intellectual. If this book introduces his ideas to anyone who had not known of them before, then the toil will have been worthwhile. And special thanks go to the best political scientist I have ever married, J. Celeste Lay, without whom none of this would matter; and our daughter Lucy, without whom the whole thing would certainly have been completed much more quickly. Acknowledgments Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. Asthatbecomesmoredeveloped,moreenlightened,asnewdiscoveriesaremade, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances , institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the same coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. Thomas Jefferson ...

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