To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891JHU Press, 16 Agu 2007 - 280 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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... fact ask for , federal intervention in their daily lives . He describes this era of congres- sional thought as a " second state , " distinct from both the minimalist approaches that came before and the Progressive state building that ...
... fact that the nation had just passed through a most terrible test of that ideology and found it wanting . The Civil War had cost over a million casualties in dead and injured , destroyed much of the South , and called into question ...
... . This transition from the republican idea of the nation - state to the Progres- sive ideology , however , is difficult to fathom . They do not seem to go together easily . In fact , even at their edges , Introduction ix.
... fact , even at their edges , where pieces of one might be expected to fit into pieces of the other , one finds little overlap . One might simply attribute this leap from one set of ideas to the other to the “ exceptionalism , ” the ...
... fact they were in- extricably linked to one another . Thus , the second state was not a physical entity so much as a state of mind , a way that members of Congress began reconceptualizing the powers and limita- tions of government and ...
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The Great Noisy Reedy Jarring Assembly The Capitol Lawyers and Public Space | xiii |
A Government of States Sponsorship and the First Debate on Land Grant Colleges 18581861 | 4 |
The Object of a Democratic Government Sponsorship and Supervision of Agriculture and Land Grant Colleges 18611863 | 33 |
A Government of Law Sponsorship and Supervising the Freedom Abondoned Lands and refugees 18631865 | 59 |
The Two Great Pillars of the State The Supervision and Standardization of Education and Law Enforcement 18651876 | 85 |
To Change the Nature of the Government StandardizingSchooling and the Civil Service 18761883 | 114 |
What Constitutes a State Supervising Labor and Commerce 18831886 | 140 |
A System Entirely Satisfactory to the Country Standardizing Labor and the Courts 18861891 | 164 |
To Answer Our Purposes It Must Be Adapted | 192 |
Acknowledgments | 201 |
Notes | 203 |
Essay on Sources | 237 |
Index | 245 |