Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins. Fiske John

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СКАЧАТЬ counties are too large

      Tendency of the school district to develop into something like a township

      Local institutions in colonial Maryland; the hundred

      Clans; brotherhoods, or phratries; and tribes

      Origin of the hundred; the hundred court; the high constable

      Decay of the hundred; hundred-meeting in Maryland

      The hundred in Delaware; the levy court, or representative county assembly

      The old Pennsylvania county

      Town-meetings in New Tort

      The county board of supervisors

      QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT

      Section 2. Settlement of the Public Domain.

      Westward movement of population along parallels of latitude

      Method of surveying the public lands

      Origin of townships in the West

      Formation of counties in the West

      Some effects of this system

      The reservation of a section for public schools

      In this reservation there were the germs of township government

      But at first the county system prevailed

      QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT

      Section 3. The Representative Township-County System in the West.

      The town-meeting in Michigan

      Conflict between township and county systems in Illinois

      Effects of the Ordinance of 1787

      Intense vitality of the township system

      County option and township option in Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Dakota

      Grades of township government in the West

      An excellent result of the absence of centralization in the United

       States

      Effect of the self-governing school district in the South, in preparing the way for the self-governing township

      Woman-suffrage in the school district

      QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT

      SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS AND DIRECTIONS

      BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

      CHAPTER V.

       Table of Contents

      THE CITY.

      Section 1. Direct and Indirect Government.

      Summary of the foregoing results; township government is direct, county government is indirect

      Representative government is necessitated in a county by the extent of territory, and in a city by the multitude of people

      Josiah Quincy's account of the Boston town-meeting in 1830

      Distinctions between towns and cities in America and in England

      QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT

      Section 2. Origin of English Boroughs and Cities.

      Origin of the chesters and casters in Roman camps

      Coalescence of towns into fortified boroughs

      The borough as a hundred; it acquires a court

      The borough as a county; it acquires a sheriff

      Government of London under Henry I

      The guilds; the town guild, and Guild Hall

      Government of London as perfected in the thirteenth century; mayor, aldermen, and common council

      The city of London, and the metropolitan district

      English cities were for a long time the bulwarks of liberty

      Simon de Montfort and the cities

      Oligarchical abuses in English cities, beginning with the Tudor period

      The Municipal Reform Act of 1835

      Government of the city of New York before the Revolution

      Changes after the Revolution

      City government in Philadelphia in the eighteenth century

      The very tradition of good government was lacking in these cities

      QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT

      Section 3. The Government of Cities in the United States.

      Several features of our municipal governments

      In many cases they do not seem to work well

      Rapid growth of American cities

      Some consequences of this rapid growth

      Wastefulness resulting from want of foresight

      Growth in complexity of government in cities

      Illustrated by list of municipal officers in Boston.

      How city government comes to be a mystery to the citizens, in some respects harder to understand than state and national government

      Dread of the "one-man power" has in many cases led to scattering and weakening of responsibility

      Committees inefficient for executive purposes; the "Circumlocution

       Office"

      Alarming increase of city debts, and various attempts to remedy the evil

      Experience of New York with state interference in municipal affairs; unsatisfactory results

      The Tweed Ring in New York

      The present is a period of experiments

      The new government СКАЧАТЬ