To Enlarge the Machinery of Government : Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 /

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Main Author: Hoffer, Williamjames
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
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245 1 0 |a To Enlarge the Machinery of Government :   |b Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 /   |c Williamjames Hull Hoffer. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-248) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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