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Title: Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition

Author: J.A. James

Release Date: July 20, 2004 [EBook #12968]

Language: English

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OUR GOVERNMENT

LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL

BY
J.A. James, Ph.D.
Professor of History in Northwestern University

AND

A.H. Sanford, M.A.
Professor of History, State Normal School, La Crosse, Wisconsin

1903, 1913
Charles Scribner's Sons

PREFACE

The subject matter herewith presented partially represents the plan
pursued by the authors as teachers of civil government for a number of
years in high school, academy, and normal school. It has been found that
a study of the methods by which the affairs of government are conducted
gives constant interest to the work, and, consequently, the practical
side of government has been emphasized. But while our desire has been to
bring the actual working of the institutions under which the student
lives into prominence, we have also attempted to give such accounts of
the origin and early development of forms of government as will assist
in explaining their process of growth. The plan of discussion is similar
to that followed in "Government in State and Nation." The general favor
with which that text has been received leads to the belief that it fully
meets the requirement of the Committee of Five for such schools as
present civil government in the third or fourth year of the course. In
many cases, however, the subject is taught earlier in the course, and
the present work has been prepared in answer to the requests of teachers
for a text suitable to this class of students.

The arrangement is such that either Local (Part I), National (Part II),
or State Government (Part III) may be studied first. In the work on
local and State government it is not expected that the student will
_learn_ all of the different practices found in the various States, but
that he will comp