TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoffer,Williamjames
TI  - To enlarge the machinery of government: congressional debates and the growth of the American state, 1858-1891 
T2  - Reconfiguring American political history
AV  - JK246 .H84 2007
U1  - 320.97309/034 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - Federal government
KW  - Debates and debating
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-248) and index; Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state -- Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space -- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861 -- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863 -- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865 -- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876 -- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883 -- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886 -- "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted"
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