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AUTHOR’S PREFACE
People desirous of becoming acquainted with
the political and administrative institutions of
Finland are often prevented from doing so by
the want of publications on the subject in any
other languages than Swedish and Finnish.
We purpose to fill this void.
The object of this work lias determined its
plan ; neither construction of system nor
development of theories will be found in it. The
author’s desire has been to make a simple
exposition of the actual law on constitutional
and administrative matters contained in the
Statutes of the Grand Duchy. The work has
no pretension beyond that of introducing into
political science a group of facts hitherto little
known. The difficulty of writing in a language
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