TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoffer,Williamjames
AU  - Project Muse
TI  - To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891 
SN  - 9781421402413
AV  - JK246 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Project MUSE
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - Debates and debating
KW  - Federal government
N1  - 1 (pages (c)207.-248) and index; 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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