title: A Guide to the United States Constitution (Third Edition)
author: Erin Ackerman
description: Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author or coauthor of 25 books, including Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced; Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public; Politics by Other Means; The Consequences of Consent; The Worth of War; and The Captive Public. Ginsberg received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1973. Before joining the Hopkins faculty in 1992, Ginsberg was Professor of Government at Cornell. His most recent books are The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters; What the Government Thinks of the People; and Analytics, Policy and Governance.
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  # A Leap in the Dark
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### A.V. Dicey
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
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  PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
  
  
  INTRODUCTION
  
  
  CHAPTER I. OLD AND NEW CONSTITUTION
  
  
  CHAPTER II. THE NEW CONSTITUTION
  
  
  CHAPTER III. WHY THE NEW CONSTITUTION WILL NOT BE A
  
  
  SETTLEMENT OF THE IRISH QUESTION
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. PLEAS FOR THE NEW CONSTITUTION
  
  
  CHAPTER V. THE PATH OF SAFETY
  
  
  
  
  
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      A Leap in the Dark
  
  
  A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the
  
  
  Bill of 1893
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  FIRST EDITION _June_ 1893 _Reprinted_ _June_ 1893
  
  
  SECOND EDITION _July_ 1911 THIRD EDITION _January_ 1912
  
  
  
  
  
  A LEAP IN THE DARK
  
  
  A CRITICISM OF THE PRINCIPLES OF HOME RULE AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE
  
  
  BILL OF 1893
  
  
  
  
  
  By A.V. DICEY K.C., HON. D.C.L.
  
  
  FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE; FORMERLY VINERIA