To Enlarge the Machinery of Government Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891 / Williamjames Hull Hoffer. [print]

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".