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Government and Administration of the United?by Westel W. Willoughby and William F. Willoughby

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Title: Government and Administration of the United States
Author: Westel W. Willoughby and William F. Willoughby
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor
History is past Politics and Politics present History--Freeman

NINTH SERIES I-II
GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE UNITED STATES
BY
WESTEL W. WILLOUGHBY, A.B. Fellow in History
AND
WILLIAM F. WILLOUGHBY, A.B. U.S. Department of Labor

1801

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Chapters.
I. Preface
II. Government Monarchy Absolute Limited Aristocracy Democracy Republic Popular Government
III. Functions of Government Necessary Optional
IV. Colonial Governments: Their Relation to Each Other, and to England Provincial Proprietary Charter
V. Steps Toward Union--Articles of Confederation New England Confederation Albany Convention Stamp Act Congress First Continental Congress Second Continental Congress Articles of Confederation Elements Tending to Separation and to Union Purposes of the Confederation Scheme of Government under the Articles Defects of the Articles
VI. Adoption of the Constitution The Constitutional Convention Arguments For and Against Adoption
VII. Presidential Succession
VIII. Election of Senators
IX. Congressional Government
X. Cabinet and Executive Departments State Department Treasury Department War Department Navy Department Interior Department Commissioner of Land Office Commissioner of Pensions Commissioner of Patents Commissioner of Indian Affairs Bureau of Education Commissioner of Railroads Geological Survey Superintendent of the Census Post Office Department Department of Justice Department of Agriculture Department of Labor Interstate Commerce Commission Fish Commission Civil Service Commission Government Printing Office National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and Bureau of Ethnology Librarian of Congress
XI. The Federal Judiciary Federal Judicial System District Courts Circuit Courts Jurisdiction
XII. Ordinance for Government of the Northwest Territory
XIII. Government of Territories Admission of a Territory as a State
XIV. State Governments State Constitutions State Legislatures State Executives State Judiciary
XV. Local Government In New England In the South In the West
XVI. City Government
XVII. Government Revenue and Expenditure Federal Government State and Local Taxes Expenditures Maryland Baltimore
XVIII. Money Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates Silver Dollars and Silver Certificates Subsidiary and Minor Coins Treasury Notes Notes of National Banks
XIX. Public Lands of the United States Educational Grants Land Bounties for Military and Naval Service Land Grants to States for Internal Improvement Sale of Public Land Under Pre-emption Acts Under Homestead Acts Under Timber Culture Act Certain Lands to States Grants to Pacific and other Railroads
XX. Reconstruction
XXI. Party Machinery
XXII. National Conventions and Presidential Campaigns History and Development of the National Convention Method of Procedure
XXIII. Introduction to the Study of the History of Political Parties in the United States
Bibliographical Note

GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
CHAPTER I.
Preface.
These chapters were originally prepared for and used as a manual in the public schools of the District of Columbia. In a revised and amplified form they are now published as one of Johns Hopkins University Studies in History and Politics.
The aim of this revision is to furnish assistance to students beginning the study of the history and practical workings of our political institutions. It is not the purpose to furnish a complete text-book upon the government of the United States and its administration, but, by a clear, concise statement of the salient points of our federal system, and a description of the actual workings of the characteristic features of our institutions, to give to the student a better understanding of the manner in which the same are administered, than is to be obtained from the ordinary text-books on Civil Government.
These Outlines are intended as an aid to both teacher and pupil, and for use in a class whose members are already familiar with the leading events and names in United States history. The work is intended to furnish such supplementary information as can be obtained only with great difficulty by most teachers, and which for the most part cannot be obtained at all by the pupils.
The authors have endeavored to make prominent the fact that our present form of government is far from being contained in the written constitution of 1787, and consequently, that a study of that instrument alone will give a very inadequate idea of our government as it is. The constitution was but a foundation upon which to build a government.
Nothing like an analysis or commentary upon the constitution of the United States is here attempted. The public is already well supplied with books covering that ground. History proper, except as showing the basis and reason for the establishment