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| | Preface | [v] |
| PART I |
| THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENT |
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| CHAPTER | | |
| I. | Human Society | [1] |
| II. | The People, Races, and Racial Problems of the United States | [19] |
| III. | Economic Factors and Organization | [37] |
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| PART II |
| THE ORGANIZATION OF GOVERNMENT |
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| THE FOUNDATIONS OF GOVERNMENT |
| IV. | The Nature and Forms of Government | [62] |
| V. | The Citizen: His Rights and Duties | [78] |
| VI. | Popular Control of Government | [94] |
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| THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM |
| VII. | Suffrage and Elections | [118] |
| VIII. | Party Organization and Practical Politics | [145] |
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| LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT |
| IX. | Counties and Rural Communities | [166] |
| X. | City Government | [182] |
| XI. | Municipal Problems of Today | [203] |
| XII. | State Government in Outline | [226] |
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| NATIONAL GOVERNMENT |
| XIII. | The National Constitution | [246] |
| XIV. | Congress at Work | [266] |
| XV. | The President and his Cabinet | [286] |
| XVI. | The Courts and the Law | [308] |
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| PART III |
| THE CIVIC ACTIVITIES |
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| ECONOMIC |
| XVII. | Natural Resources and Conservation | [326] |
| XVIII. | The Agricultural Interests | [339] |
| XIX. | The Encouragement and Regulation of Commerce | [356] |
| XX. | The Organization and Control of Industry | [383] |
| XXI. | Labor and Labor Problems | [400] |
| XXII. | Currency, Banking, and Credit | [424] |
| XXIII. | Taxation and Public Finance | [450] |
| XXIV. | Public Utilities and Public Ownership | [474] |
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| SOCIAL |
| XXV. | Education | [492] |
| XXVI. | Public Health and Sanitation | [514] |
| XXVII. | Poor-Relief, Correction, and Other Welfare Problems | [540] |
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| INTERNATIONAL |
| XXVIII. | The National Defence | [563] |
| XXIX. | Foreign Relations | [587] |
| XXX. | The United States as a World Power | [606] |
| XXXI. | The United States and the League of Nations | [625] |
| XXXII. | Political and Social Reconstruction | [646] |
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| APPENDIX |
| | The Constitution of the United States | [665] |
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| INDEX |