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Why should legislative proceedings in the grand duchy of Luxemburg be given consideration? It is a country with an area less than that of Rhode Island and with a population (260,000) which would barely fill a second class city—a mere atom in the world's history. Nor has it played an heroic part in the great crisis. Here is the excuse. The discussions in the chamber of deputies have reflected, not in their depths but in their shallows, nearly all the phases of the seething unrest which agitates larger nations, and therein lies the reason for offering a few pictures drawn from the official records of the grand ducal chamber— the German reports as they are sent out daily, translated from the proceedings in French, and the final French comptes-rendus. They are miniatures of the processes of readjustment in progress across the Atlantic.The Luxemburg chamber of deputies is a legislative body that has been evolved by a series of still visible leaps and jumps from the simplest feudal conditions to the assembly recently elected by universal adult suffrage on a basis of proportional party representation according to the system of the scrutin de liste. Its modernity is so complete that a Socialist woman has obtained a seat, yet the conservative character of the forbears of the body is not entirely lost to view in the mists of the past.The old duchy of Luxemburg—a countship until raised to higher dignity by an imperial brother of its count (1354)—lost its early independence in the fifteenth century (1441), and thenceforth shared the political lot of the Belgic provinces under Burgundian, Spanish and Austrian rule.

"Reprinted from The American Political Science Review, Vol. XIV, no. 4, November, 1920", pp. 607-634. ; Cover serves as title-page. ; Pamphlet. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Bibliographical list of principal works consulted": p.453-466. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Bibliographical list of principal works consulted": p. 453-466. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Appendices: I. The treaties; diplomatic articles by which the political status of Alsace and Lorraine . has been affected (p. 201-205); II. Main sources used for the narrative (p. 206-208) ; Mode of access: Internet.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Pragmatism Then and Now -- WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES PRAGMATISM MAKE? THE VIEW FROM PHILOSOPHY -- Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism -- Response to Hilary Putnam's "Pragmatism and Realism" -- The Moral Impulse -- What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? -- PRAGMATISM AND THE REMAKING OF SOCIAL THOUGHT -- Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking? -- Pragmatism and Democracy: Reconstructing the Logic of John Dewey's Faith -- Community in the Pragmatic Tradition -- Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical "Race" Theory, and the Politics of Culture -- Going Astray, Going Forward: Du Boisian Pragmatism and Its Lineage -- The Inspiration of Pragmatism: Some Personal Remarks -- The Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science -- Pragmatism and Its Limits -- PRAGMATISM AND LAW -- Pragmatic Adjudication -- Freestanding Legal Pragmatism -- What's Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism? -- Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban -- It's a Positivist, It's a Pragmatist, It's a Codifier! Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal -- Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Legal Interpretation: Posner's and Rorty's Justice without Metaphysics Meets Hate Speech -- PRAGMATISM, CULTURE, AND ART -- Why Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets? -- Pragmatists and Poets: A Response to Richard Poirier -- The Novelist of Everyday Life, -- When Mind Is a Verb: Thomas Eakins and the Work of Doing -- Religion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism -- Afterword Truth and Toilets: Pragmatism and the Practices of Life -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index