To Enlarge the Machinery of Government Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891 / Williamjames Hull Hoffer.
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TextPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 258 p.)ISBN: 9781421402413; 1421402416Subject(s): United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century | Debates and debating -- United States | Federal government -- United States | United States. CongressGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 320.97309/034 LOC classification: JK246 | .H84 2007Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-248) and index.
Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state -- Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space -- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861 -- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863 -- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865 -- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876 -- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883 -- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886 -- "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted".
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