books.google.com - "The framers of the Constitution and the generations that followed built a powerful and intrusive national administrative state in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The romantic myth of an individualized, pioneering expansion across an open West obscures nationally coordinated administrative...http://books.google.com/books/about/Indian_Affairs_and_the_Administrative_St.html?id=BklTaUBSUF4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIndian Affairs and the Administrative State in the Nineteenth Century