OUR GOVERNMENT

LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL


BY
J.A. James, Ph.D.
Professor of History in Northwestern University

AND

A.H. Sanford, M.A.
Professor of History, State Normal School, La Crosse, Wisconsin

1903, 1913
Charles Scribner's Sons




PREFACE


The subject matter herewith presented partially represents the plan
pursued by the authors as teachers of civil government for a number of
years in high school, academy, and normal school. It has been found that
a study of the methods by which the affairs of government are conducted
gives constant interest to the work, and, consequently, the practical
side of government has been emphasized. But while our desire has been to
bring the actual working of the institutions under which the student