- Races in the United States, [19-33]
- Radicalism, growth of, [646-647]
- Railroads, the beginnings of, [362-363]
- Railway Labor Board, [367]
- Ratio of representation, [272]
- Recall of officers, [113-114]
- Recess appointments, [271]
- Reciprocity with Canada, [373]
- Reconstruction, economic, in Europe, [614-615]
- political and economic, [646-661]
- Redistricting, [273]
- Refunding of public debts, [468]
- Registration of voters, [125-126]
- Regular army, [567-568]
- Removals from office, [106]
- Rent, its nature, [43]
- Representation, proportional, [134-136]
- Representatives, effect of direct legislation on the quality of, [112]
- Reserves, forest, [332-333]
- Restraint of trade, [389-390]
- Resources, natural, [326-336]
- Revolution, American, as a unifying factor, [248]
- Rings, political, [160-161]
- Rome, ancient, prestige of citizenship in, [80-81]
- Roosevelt, Theodore, on national defence, [565 n]
- in Venezuela controversy, [590]
- Rule of reason, the, [390]
- Rural exodus, the, [351-352]
- Russia, the new government in, [647-652]
S
- Sales tax, as proposed, [462]
- Schools. See Education
- Second jeopardy, [320]
- Secret diplomacy, [595-596]
- Selective service in war time, [570-571]
- Selectmen, boards of, in towns, [176]
- Senate of the United States, organization and powers of, [267-272]
- rejection of treaties by, [631]
- Senatorial courtesy. See Courtesy of the Senate
- Sewage, collection and disposal of, [527-528]
- Sheriff, office of, [171]
- Sherman Act, [364-365], [389-390], [391 n]
- Shipping Board, [375]
- Single tax, as proposed, [461-462]
- Short ballot, [132-133]
- in county elections, [174]
- Sinking funds, [468]
- Smith, Adam, on the canons of taxation, [455]
- Smoke abatement in cities, [531]
- Social contract, theory of, [65]
- Socialism, defined and explained, [652-653]
- Socialist party, its rise and present status, [154]
- Society, its origin and nature, [1-13]
- Soil, economic importance of, [327-328]
- exhaustion of, [345]
- Soviet system in Russia, [647-650]
- Speaker, office of, [274-275]
- Special assessments, [457]
- Spoils system, [101-103]
- in the consular service, [374]
- State Department, its work, [591]
- States, nature of, [62-63]
- relation of local government to, [186-190], [219-220]
- relation to national government, [226-227]
- admission of, [227-230]
- constitutions of, [230-232]
- functions of, [232-233]
- legislative organization in, [235-237]
- executive organization in, [237-238]
- judicial organization in, [239-240]
- encouragement of agriculture by, [348]
- control of corporations by, [392]
- tax systems of, [457-458]
- educational work of, [496-497]
- supervision of public health by, [534]
- Statutes and statutory law, [315-316]
- Steam, revolution in industry caused by, [384]
- Stock exchange, functions of, [445-446]
- Streets, planning of, [208-209]
- Strikes, how organized, [406-407]
- Succession to the presidency, [296]
- Suffrage, history of, [119-120]
- Supreme Court of the United States, its constitutional functions, [259-260]
- its organization and influence, [308-311]
T
- Tariffs and tariff policy, [368-372]
- Taxation, in cities, [220-222]
- Taxes, on immigrants, [30]
- as an element in the cost of production, [52]
- Teachers, the training of, [503-504]
- Tenements. See Housing
- Territories, the government of, [229-230]
- Timber, the conservation of, [331-332]
- Town government, [175-176]
- Towner-Sterling Bill, [499 n]
- Township government, [176-177]
- Trade unions. See [Organization of labor]
- Traffic zones, [210]
- Transportation Act, [364], [367]
- Treasury, Department of the, [299 n]
- Treaties, ratification of, by the Senate, [271]
- Trial by jury, [318-321]
- Tribe, its place in political evolution, [66]
- Triple Alliance, [628-629]
- Trusts, industrial, [387]
- Tweed, William M., [161 n]
- Typhoid fever, its cause and method of transmission, [517-518]
U
- Unemployment, the problem of, [417-418]
- Unions, labor, aims and methods of, [401-410]
- Universal military training, merits and defects of, [578]
- Usage, development of constitution by, [258-259]
- Utility, the principle of, in determining demand, [40-41]
- Utilities, public, [215]
V
- Vaccination and inoculation, effects of 523-524
- Value, definition of, [53]
- Versailles, Treaty of, [610], [631 n]
- Vice president, election of, [288]
- duties of, 270 n
- functions of the, [296-297]
- Veto power, the President’s, [294-295]
- Vocation, the choice of a, [396-397]
- Vocational education, [507-508]
- See also [Guidance, vocational]
- Volunteers, use of, in war, [569-570]
- Voting, preferential, [133-134]
- qualifications for, [122-125]
- absent, [138]
- compulsory, [138-139]
- by machine, [139-140]
- in Congress, [278 n]
- See also [Registration of voters], [Suffrage]
W