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Title: Government and Administration of the United States

Author: Westel W. Willoughby and William F. Willoughby

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES
IN
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor

History is past Politics and Politics present History--_Freeman_

NINTH SERIES
I-II

GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
OF THE
UNITED STATES

BY

WESTEL W. WILLOUGHBY, A.B.
_Fellow in History_

AND

WILLIAM F. WILLOUGHBY, A.B.
_U.S. Department of Labor_

1801

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Chapters.

I. Preface

II. Government
Monarchy
Absolute
Limited
Aristocracy
Democracy
Republic
Popular Government

III. Functions of Government
Necessary
Optional

IV. Colonial Governments: Their Relation to Each
Other, and to England
Provincial
Proprietary
Charter

V. Steps Toward Union--Articles of Confederation
New England Confederation
Albany Convention
Stamp Act Congress
First Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress
Articles of Confederation
Elements Tending to Separation and to Union
Purposes of the Confederation
Scheme of Government under the Articles
Defects of the Articles

VI. Adoption of the Constitution
The Constitutional Convention
Arguments For and Against Adoption

VII. Presidential Succession

VIII. Election of Senators

IX. Congressional Government

X. Cabinet and Executive Departments
State Department
Treasury Department
War Department
Navy Department
Interior Department
Commissioner