Readings in American Government and Politics

Charles Austin Beard

Macmillan, 1914 - United States - 638 pages

Contents

• HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS: 1
• Hening Statutes at Large V 489 sqq and 175: 13
• مة والانارة والصحيةXXXIX 76: 17
• Appointment of the South Carolina delegates: 19
• The Articles of Confederation: 25
• Judicial expansion of the Constitution: 27
• Continental Congress recommends the establishment of state gov: 35
• THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION: 36
• The call for the Constitutional Convention of 1787: 43
• Philosophy of the American constitutional system: 49
• 35499: 54
• CHAPTER IV: 56
• Judicial expansion of the Constitution: 62
• The Constitution and executive practice: 69
• CHAPTER V: 72
• American rotten boroughs: 75
• An appeal for the right to vote: 78
• Restrictions on special legislation: 84
• Recent tendencies in constitutional development: 87
• CHAPTER VI: 92
• The Whig Party: 94
• The doctrine of liberal construction: 98
• The Republican party and war politics: 100
• Political significance of the speakership: 104
• Nemocratic National Convention 1896: 105
• Contemporary political issues: 107
• The Senate at work: 110
• YAPTER VII: 112
• The congressional caucus for nominating presidential candidates: 114
• Jeffersons criticism of the Supreme Court: 115
• ention: 119
• Bentons criticism of the convention system: 120
• A state political machine: 127
• Report of the United States Civil Service Commission 1908: 128
• CHAPTER VIII: 134
• λα του εισώτεια on andment by a state: 135
• The supremacy of federal: 140
• Judicial interpretation of the term commerce: 144
• Reciprocal guarantee of privileges and immunities among the several: 146
• CHAPTER IX: 154
• Federal limitations on state authorities: 159
• The Oregon presidential primary law: 160
• NATIONAL RESOURCES: 163
• The Democratic unit rule: 167
• The question of centralization in administration: 172
• Legislatures and railways: 188
• THE NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION: 197
• Decentralized municipal administration: 202
• Power of administrative officials to decide cases affecting life liberty: 204
• President Cleveland and the place hunters: 211
• Politics and public utilities: 215
• The apportionment of representatives among the states: 218
• Popular election of Senators in Oregon: 225
• The instruction of representatives in Congress: 233
• 96: 236
• Communications between the Houses: 247
• CHAPTER XV: 273
• Power of the federal courts over state statutes: 278
• Political questions in federal cases: 283
• THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM: 285
• THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY: 287
• The federal Constitution: 291
• Expenses connected with the ambassadorial rank: 295
• The recognition of a new government: 302
• CHAPTER XVII: 308
• Establishment of a blockade: 312
• Use of troops in domestic disasters: 318
• The apportionment of direct taxes: 327
• Preparation of a revenue bill: 333
• Extract from an appropriation bill: 341
• Constitutional provisions: 343
• The governors conference 1908: 361
• The reservation of mineral lands: 368
• CHAPTER XXI: 375
• The Philippine assembly: 385
• Arguments on womans suffrage: 405
• Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of New York: 411
• The recall in Oregon: 418
• Arguments against the initiative and referendum: 424
• Statutes of the United States 189990 79: 429
• CHAPTER XXIV: 432
• LOCAL GOVERNMENT: 438
• Same as above No 173 1 1482 sqq Papers of Frank: 447
• Government by commission: 453
• Legislative apportionment: 462
• The legislative committee of inquiry: 471
• The independence of the judiciary: 488
• Roosevelt on the recall of judicial decisions: 495
• Home rule for cities: 509
• The Oregon presidential primary: 535
• Power of the courts to pass on the constitutionality of federal: 537
• Work of a tenement house department: 540
• The question of municipal ownership: 548
• Centralization of administrative supervision: 563
• in national administration: 567
• Corporations in politics: 572
• Charity in Tammany politics: 581
• TAXATION AND FINANCE: 590
• Taxation of personal property: 597
• The inheritance tax: 603
• Express powers conferred on Congress by the Constitution: 608
• Control of railways by commission: 609
• The doctrine of strict construction: 614
• The Supreme Court and labor legislation: 617
• INDEX: 635
• 204: 636

Popular passages

Page 21 - States shall be divided or appropriated ; of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace, appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of Congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.

Page 224 - Measures; 6 To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States...

Page 609 - No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4. No capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.1 5. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State.

Page 25 - The committee of the States, or any nine of them, shall be authorized to execute in the recess of Congress, such of the powers of Congress as the United States in Congress assembled, by the consent of nine States, shall from time to time think expedient to vest them with...

Page 363 - States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.

Page 26 - AND WHEREAS it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation and perpetual union.

Page 43 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

Page 24 - ... place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled ; but if the United States in Congress assembled shall, on consideration of circumstances, judge proper that any State should not raise men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other State should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...

Page 21 - ... in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated, according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled shall from time to time direct and appoint.

Page 26 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted, by or under the authority of congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed. and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof, the said United States, and the public faith, are hereby solemnly pledged.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Readings in American Government and Politics
• Author: Charles Austin Beard
• Editor: Charles Austin Beard
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1914
• Length: 638 pages