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HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor
History is past Politics and Politics present History—Freeman
WESTEL W. WILLOUGHBY, A.B.Fellow in History
WILLIAM F. WILLOUGHBY, A.B.U.S. Department of Labor
1801
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