Problems in American Democracy
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Problems are the growing pains of civilization, offering opportunities for personal achievement and pointing the way to national progress.
My Mother
There is an increasing demand for a textbook which will bring the student into direct contact with the great current issues of American life, and which will afford practical training to those who soon must grapple with the economic, social, and political problems of our own time. It is with the hope of meeting such a demand that this text has been prepared.
The plan of the book calls for a word of explanation. It is poor pedagogy to expect the student to attack the defects of American life, and at the same time to place in his hands a book which deals predominantly with the mechanism of government. As well send a boy to a hardware store to buy tools before he is told whether he is to make a mouse-trap or a boat. Furthermore, to spend much more time on the mechanism of government than on the actual problems of democracy is a mistake in emphasis. Government is a means, not an end. It is a tool by means of which we attack and solve our problems.
Therefore the student of this text begins, not with the mechanism of government, but with the historical background of American democracy, its origin, development, and promise for the future. Following this is a brief survey of the economic life of the nation, because that economic life constitutes the fundamental basis of our problems. Considerable space has been devoted to a problem growing directly out of economic conditions, i.e. the question of social justice or industrial reform. This is the most pressing question before any modern people, but strangely enough one which heretofore has been neglected by our schools.
Because they tend to arise primarily from a bad economic situation, such social problems as industrial relations, health in industry, and immigration are next considered. From social problems the text passes to the economic and social functions of government, and thence to the question of making government effective. The mechanism of government has been placed last, and for the reason already given, i.e. because a knowledge of the framework of government is valuable only after the citizen knows something of the needs which that mechanism must be made to fill.
Thames Williamson
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PREFACE
TOPICS AND READINGS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
PART II—AMERICAN ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
B. PROGRAMS OF INDUSTRIAL REFORM
PART III—AMERICAN SOCIAL PROBLEMS
PART IV—AMERICAN POLITICAL PROBLEMS
B. MAKING GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVE
PART V—THE MECHANISM OF GOVERNMENT
B. STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER I
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CHAPTER II
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CHAPTER III
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CHAPTER IV
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CHAPTER V
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PART II—AMERICAN ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
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CHAPTER VII
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CHAPTER VIII
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CHAPTER IX
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CHAPTER X
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B. PROGRAMS OF INDUSTRIAL REFORM
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CHAPTER XII
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CHAPTER XIII
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CHAPTER XIV
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CHAPTER XV
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CHAPTER XVI
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CHAPTER XVII
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PART III—AMERICAN SOCIAL PROBLEMS
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CHAPTER XIX
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CHAPTER XX
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CHAPTER XXI
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CHAPTER XXII
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CHAPTER XXIII
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CHAPTER XXIV
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CHAPTER XXV
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CHAPTER XXVI
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PART IV—AMERICAN POLITICAL PROBLEMS
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CHAPTER XXVIII
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CHAPTER XXIX
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CHAPTER XXX
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CHAPTER XXXI
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CHAPTER XXXII
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B. MAKING GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVE
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CHAPTER XXXIV
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CHAPTER XXXV
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CHAPTER XXXVI
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CHAPTER XXXVII
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CHAPTER XXXVIII
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PART V—THE MECHANISM OF GOVERNMENT
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CHAPTER XL
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CHAPTER XLI
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CHAPTER XLII
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CHAPTER XLIII
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B. STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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CHAPTER XLVI
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CHAPTER XLVII
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CHAPTER XLVIII
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CHAPTER XLIX
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CHAPTER L
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA