Preface to the Second Edition
The indulgence which this little volume has been received by the public encourages me to bring out a second edition. The three essays in the original edition are untouched. To the one on America, I have made a somewhat important addition concerning the exercise of the legislative function by the Chamber of Representatives.
Though tempted do to into certain questions of so, I did not wish to enter extra-constitutional order in the United States which have arisen of late, and will certainly be some of the problems of the future. I should have been, to a certain extent, justified in yielding to this temptation; for whatever be the solution of these questions, its effect will certainly be felt in the region of public law. The rapidity with which the growth of landed estates has begun and progresses; the immense extent of the latifundia; the approaching exhaustion of the available soil — that seemingly inexhaustible treasure — the increase of tenant farmers
