To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891Johns Hopkins University Press, 16 Agu 2007 - 258 halaman How did the federal government change from the weak apparatus of the antebellum period to the large, administrative state of the Progressive Era? To Enlarge the Machinery of Government explores the daily proceedings of the U.S. House and Senate from 1858 to 1891 to find answers to this question. Through close readings of debates centered around sponsorship, supervision, and standardization recorded in the Congressional Globe and Congressional Record during this period, Williamjames Hull Hoffer traces a critical shift in ideas that ultimately ushered in Progressive legislation: the willingness of American citizens to allow, and in fact ask for, federal intervention in their daily lives. He describes this era of congressional thought as a "second state," distinct from both the minimalist approaches that came before and the Progressive state building that developed later. The "second state" era, Hoffer contends, offers valuable insight into how conceptions of American uniqueness contributed to the shape of the federal government. |
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... Morrill adapted well to his commercial and political clerkship and eventually entered into a partnership with Judge Harris , a local Whig Party leader . Morrill traveled extensively throughout the northern part of the United States to ...
... Morrill had joined the fledgling Republican Party , which for him represented the interests of the free farmers of the North.35 But there was more to Morrill's proposed education program than just a political deal to wed farm- ers to ...
... Morrill's proposal in the House . In the meantime Congress turned to a measure that was even more forward than Morrill's in terms of increasing the scale and scope of the national government : the creation of a department of agriculture ...
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Sponsorship and the First Debate | 8 |
Sponsorship | 37 |
Sponsoring and Supervising | 63 |
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