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xiv, 1042 pages ; 25 cm |
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The American Creed -- American Ideals and the American conscience / Gunnar Myrdal -- The rules and how they were made -- Constitutions / Howard Lee Mcbain / The American government of the revolutionary period / J. Allen Smith -- Writing the national constitution / J. Mark Jacobson -- Adopting the national constitution / Charles A. and Mary R. Beard -- The state constitutions after 1787 / J. Allen Smith -- Changing the rules for a changing society -- Our unwritten constitution, changing the constitution without formal amendment / William Bennett Munro -- Amending the federal constitution / Howard Lee McBain -- Everybody's business, changing the rules in state government / The national municipal review -- Resistance to change in cities and countries / Edward W. Weidner -- The seperation of powers -- The separation of powers n American government / W. F. Willoughby -- The president and congress / Wilfred E. Binkley -- An analysis of the proposals to allow cabinet members on the floor of congress / Harold J. Laski -- The geographical distribution of governmental power -- The obsolescence of federalism / Harold L. Laski -- Federalism - Then and now / William Anderson -- The world demands proof / Spencer Miller Jr. -- Intergovernmental problems- can we solve them -- Federal- state relations / The commission on organization of the executive branch of the government -- Interstate cooperation / Charles J. Calrow -- A plague of special districts / Kirk H. Porter -- Big government not inevitable / David E Lilienthal -- Civil liberty and democracy -- Individual liberty and governmental authority / J. Allen Smith -- Everything worth saying should be said / Alexander Meiklejohn -- Freedom is unsafe without self-government / Karl Loewenstein -- How free is our press / William Allen White -- Radio: Medicine show / John T. Flynn -- The Alien - A potential citizen -- Perspective / Hugh Carter -- Government agencies working with tthe foreign born / Ruth Z. Murphy -- The unfinished business of American democracy / Louis Wirth -- The poeple and the suffrage -- The struggle for a democratic suffrage / J. Allen Smith --A defense of the non-voter / Clyde Eagleton -- Apathy - Our fifth column / John N. Dumas -- Public opinion, propaganda, and democracy -- The nature of public opinion / Leonard W. Doob -- Public opinion and politics in a democracy / Leonard W. Doob -- Do the polls serve democracy / John C. Ranney -- The political party -- The strength of our political system / Allan Nevins -- The magnitude of the task of the politician / Frederick M. Davenport -- The political party and the local political club / Alfred E. Smith -- To hold your district - Study human nature and act accordin' / W. L. Riordon -- Honest and dishonest graft / W. L. Riordon -- Nominations and elections / The American pattern of individual leadership and mass passivity / Gunnar Myrdal -- Democracy and the direct primary / Charles E. Merriam and Louise Overacker -- The conventions and the presidency / Harold J. Laski -- Backstage in a national campaign / Alfred E. Smith -- Money in federal politics / Charles A. Beard -- The job of the legislator -- In praise of the legislative way / T. V. Smith -- Report from a freshman senator / Paul H. Douglas -- Why a congressman votes that way / Cabell Phillips -- The senate and the appointing power - Senatorial courtesy / Franklin D. Roosevelt and Carter Glass -- Legislative organization and procedure -- A comparison of the bicameral and unicameral systems / W. F. Willoughby -- Congress still needs reorganization / George E. Outland -- Problems peculiar to the short-session legislature / William E. Treadway -- Strengthening state legislatures / Lynton K. Caldwell -- Advising the legislator -- What is the matter with representative government / George H. Sabine -- In defense of lobbying / Henry A. Bellows -- The pressure boys in action / Stuart Chase -- Technical services for the state legislatures / Edwin E. Witte -- The executive in American government -- The president as "dictator" versus the president as leader - A new type of cabinet / Edward S. Corwin -- Governors and legislatures / George H. Dern -- The city manager as a community leader / C. A. Harrell -- Administration - Organization and reorganization -- The perennial cry of bureaucracy / John Dickinson -- Our super government - Can we control it / James MacGregor burns -- Administrative reorganization / Charles S. Hyneman -- Has state reorganization succeeded / William H. Edwards -- The government and its employees -- Fallacies in American thinking on governmental personnel . The commission of inquiry on public service personnel -- Let's go back to the spoils system / John Fischer -- Methods of evasion of civil service laws / V. O. Key Jr. -- Essentials of a model personnel system / Floyd W. Reeves -- The courts and the law -- The happy island / Max Radin -- The law / Fred Rodell -- Humpty Dumpty's rule in law / Harry Hibschman -- Legal cobwebs / Harry Hibschman -- Common sense and the law / William A. Stern -- The courts and public policy -- The rold of the supreme court in a democratic nation / Robert E. Cushman -- The Divine rights of judges / Max Lerner -- THe incidence of judicial control over congress / Henry W. Edgerton -- The fate of the supreme court / Max Lerner -- The incidence of judicial control over congress / Henry W. Edgerton -- The fate of the supreme court / Max Lerner -- Judicial organization and procedure -- Who says it is the law / Max Radin -- The unknown court / Edith M. Stern -- J. P. / State government -- The general structure of court organization / Charles Grove Haines -- Civil and criminal procedure / Max Radin -- The place of Government in the scheme of things -- The place of government in the scheme of things / Harold M. Groves -- Raising the money for government -- Taxes and the taxpayer / Donald B. Marsh -- The problems of duplicating federal and state taxes / James W. Martin -- Meeting the needs for state and local revenues in the postwar era / W. Brooke Graves and Karl W. H. Scholz -- Can municipal taxes be reduced / Carl H. Chatters -- Managing the public's money -- The management of the budget / The committee on post-war tax policy -- $1,031,961,754.73 / Lillian Ross -- A different prescription / Charles E. Merriam -- The United States in one world / Foreign affairs / The commission on organization of the executive branch of the government -- How the United States enters into treaties with other nations / William V. Whittington -- We move - slowly - toward world law / A. H. Feller -- The illusion of world government / Reinhold Niebuhr -- Some problems of law enforcement -- Who's wrong with the law / Mitchell Dawson -- Barbed - wire entanglements / John A. Warner -- Twelve good men - and untrue / Upton Close -- Justice - Quick and cheap / Joe P. Faulkner -- Money and credit, banking, and securities -- Government management of currency and credit / John Parke Young -- Issues in the field of banking / Marshall Edward Dimock -- Protecting Investors in securities / Theodore W. Glocker -- Government and business -- The myth of rugged American individualism / Charles A. Beard -- The control of big business / Walton H. Hamilton -- The priorities of government / Marshall Edward Dimock -- Government and public service enterprises -- Techniques of public control - An appraisal of methods / Robert M. Cooper -- The regulatory agency: Detached tribunal or positive administrator / James C. Charlesworth -- Defects and remedies in administrative adjudication / Roland L. Redmond -- Government, Labor and management -- Let's look at labor / William H. Davis -- The function of government control in labor relations / Glenn W. Miller -- Social security -- Why social security / Mary Ross -- What to expect of social security / Edwin E. Witte -- The community and the full employment problem / W. E. Upjohn institute for community research -- Education, housing, and health - governmental responsibilities -- Education in a democracy / Harold Benjamin -- How may the schools further democracy / Harold Alberty -- Democracy can't live in these houses / Paul H. Douglas -- Justice and the future of medicine / Wendell Berge -- Government and farm problems -- Some essentials of a good agricultural policy / Howard R. Tolley -- Pressure from farmers / Stuart Chase -- The farmer's in the world / The reporter -- Democratic government and planning -- The role of government in economic planning / Raymond T. Bye -- Social and economic planning / Alvin H. Hansen |
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United States -- Politics and government.
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United States. |
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Politics and government. |
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Kirkpatrick, E. M. (Evron Maurice), 1911-1995.
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