To enlarge the machinery of government
Subtitle: congressional debates and the creation of America's second state, 1858-1891
By: Williamjames Hoffer.
Series: Reconfiguring American political history
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9788018865545
Subjects: United States. -- Congress; Federal government -- United States; Debates and debating -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state and the recurring paradox in the expansion of the U.S. national government; title: Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space; title: A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861; title: "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863; title: "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865; title: The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876; title: "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883; title: "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886; title: "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891; title: Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted".