Hoffer, Williamjames, <br/><br/>
To Enlarge the Machinery of Government  Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891 /  [print] 
Williamjames Hull Hoffer. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  (c)2007. 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) 
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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<br/><br/>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". 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781421402413 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Congress. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Debates and debating--United States.<br/>Federal government--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JK246 JK246.P964.T646 2007