Community Civics

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Allyn and Bacon, 1917 - 505 Seiten

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Departments of Government
16
Checks and Balances
17
THE CITIZENHIS RIGHTS AND 14 Explanations DUTIES
19
Acquisition of Citizenship
20
Naturalization
21
Rights of Citizens
22
Duties of Citizens
25
Some Questions on Citizenship
26
ELEMENTS OF COMMUNITY WELFARE CHAPTER IV THE PLANNING OF THE COMMUNITY 20 Importance of Community Planning
28
Notable Examples
30
SECTION PAGE 22 Topographical Difficulties
32
Systems of Street Planning
33
Civic Centers
34
City Zones
35
Possibilities of Improvement
36
The Laying Out of Streets
38
Street Paving
41
Street Cleaning
45
Street Lighting
47
Franchises and Their Evils
48
Water Transportation
50
Bridges
52
Services of the Railroad
53
Improvements in the Railroad
54
Street Railways
57
Quality of Street Car Service
60
The Smoke Nuisance
61
Trees and Parkways
64
Unsightly Places
66
Unnecessary Noise
68
THE HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY 42 Death Rates
72
Control of Disease
73
Prevention of Disease
74
Water Supply
78
Purification of Water
79
Drainage and Sewerage
82
Disposal of Wastes
83
Home Owning
86
The Slums
88
The Citys Food Supply
91
Markets
94
THE HIGHER LIFE OF THE COMMUNITY 54 Public Provision for Recreation and Culture
97
Parks
99
Playgrounds
100
SECTION PAGE 57 Libraries
102
Religion
104
Religious Instruction
107
THE PROTECTION OF THE COMMUNITY 60 Fire Losses
110
Fire Fighting
111
Fire Prevention
113
Fire Insurance
115
European Systems of Management
117
Police Corruption
118
Emergency Measures
120
TRAINING THE YOUNG CITIZEN 69 Reasons for Public Schools
122
Education in Other Countries
123
Difference and Likeness in the States School Systems
124
School Administration
126
School Attendance
128
School Revenues
129
Making the Schools Useful
130
School Buildings
132
New Features
133
THE MECHANISM OF OUR GOV ERNMENT CHAPTER IX POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTIONS 78 Reasons for Political Parties
136
Party Organization
137
Dangers in Parties
138
Nominations
139
The Campaign
141
Elections
142
SECTION PAGE 84 Qualifications of Voters
144
Woman Suffrage
145
Forms of Ballots
146
Relation of the States to Each Other
148
Initiative Referendum and Recall
149
National Supremacy and Obligation
150
Distribution of the Powers of Government
151
Making the Constitution
152
Congress
153
The Representatives
154
Special Powers of the Houses
156
Sessions of Congress
157
Government and Rules of Congress
159
Officers of Congress
160
The Committee System
162
The Process of Lawmaking
163
Powers of Congress
164
Special Provisions Affecting Congressmen
167
OUR CHIEF EXECUTIVE 100 Importance of the President
171
Method of Election
173
Our Currency System
174
Our Paper Money
175
Meaning and Importance of Credit
176
Succession to the Presidency
177
Powers and Duties of the President
178
The ClearingHouse
179
Dangers in the Use of Credit
180
The Federal Banking System
181
Property and Its Ownership
182
Ways of Acquiring Property
183
NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS 105 Development of the Cabinet
184
Functions of the Cabinet
185
Comparison with the English System
186
State Department
187
Treasury Department
188
War Department
189
Navy Department
191
The Navy
192
Department of Justice
194
SECTION PAGE 116 Department of the Interior
196
Department of Agriculture
198
Department of Commerce
200
Interstate Commerce Commission
201
Civil Service Commission
202
Federal Trade Commission
203
OUR NATIONAL COURTS 124 Services and Importance
207
Relation of State and Federal Courts
208
Circuit Courts of Appeals
209
Special Courts
211
MISCELLANEOUS FACTS ABOUT NATIONAL GOVERNMENT 131 Removals from Office
213
Treason
214
The Amendments
215
The Unwritten Constitution 22
216
The Territories
217
Colonies or Possessions
219
District of Columbia
221
Protectorates
222
OUR RELATIONS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES 140 Basis of International Relations
224
Rights of States
225
Foreign Representatives
226
Preliminary Proceedings in a Criminal Case 157 The Trial
247
Measures to Prevent Wrong
250
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 160 Subdivisions of the State
253
Systems of Local Government
254
County Administration 163 County Officers
255
The Town or Township
256
The New England Town
258
The Township in Other States 167 Boroughs and Incorporated Villages
260
Formation of Cities
261
City Officials
262
City Problems
265
Special Plans of City Government
266
PROBLEMS OF NATIONAL SCOPE A FINANCIAL PROBLEMS CHAPTER XIX MONEY AND CREDIT 172 Money and Its Uses
269
Characteristics of Money
270
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271
What Is a Good Tax?
289
Tax Definitions
290
The Cost of Government
291
Government Revenues 291 293 190 National Finances
293
State and Local Finance
296
The Assessment and Collection of Local Taxes
297
Budget Making
298
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The Protective Tariff 300
302
B ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS CHAPTER XXII LABOR AND INDUSTRY 196 The Factors in Production
305
Industrial Accidents
307
Prevention of Accidents
309
Workmens Compensation Acts
310
Dangerous Trades
311
SECTION PAGE 202 Child Labor
314
Effects
316
Child Labor Laws
318
Womens Labor Laws
320
Unemployment
322
Labor Unions and Their Objects
323
Union Methods
324
Accomplishments of the Unions
327
Conciliation and Arbitration
328
BUSINESS ORGANIZATION 213 Capital and Its Importance
331
Forms of Business Organization
333
The Trust
335
Relations of the Workers
336
Monopolies
338
Monopoly Prices
339
Public Policy Regarding Monopolies
340
The AntiTrust Laws
341
Our Merchant Marine
343
Industrial Preparedness
344
SAVING OUR NATURAL RESOURCES 223 Importance of Natural Resources
347
The Conservation Movement
348
Forest Conservation
350
Water Conservation
352
Land Conservation
354
Other Conservation Problems
357
Homestead Laws
358
SOCIAL PROBLEMS CHAPTER XXV THE STATES BURDENS 231 Crime and its Classification
361
Causes of Crime
363
SECTION PAGE 233 Treatment of Criminals
364
Institutions for the Criminal
367
Convict Labor
369
Juvenile Courts
370
Poverty and Its Causes
371
Methods of Relief
374
The Settlement House
376
Public Charitable Institutions
377
Care of Dependents
379
The Feebleminded
380
Tramps
382
The Liquor Traffic
383
General Results and Conclusions about the Liquor Problem
385
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387
AMERICA THE MELTING POT 247 Where Did We Come From?
390
Why Do They Come?
392
Where Do They Go?
393
What Happens?
395
What Shall We Do about It?
396
The Yellow Man
398
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399
254
402
256
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The Farmer and the Highways
409
258
411
The Protection of Life and Property
412
260
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261
416
262
419
The Farm Loan System
421
TRADE TRAVEL AND NEWS 264 In Days of Old
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The Railroad
427
Telling the News
429
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270
433
The Problems of the Case
434
EARNING A LIVING 272 Preparation for Active Service
437
Choosing a Vocation
439
Opportunities for the Country Boy
441
The Youth in the City
443
Training the Girl
444
Occupations and Wages
447
The Rise in Prices
449
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Effects of High Prices
451
The Family Budget
453
Home Management
454
EFFORTS TOWARD BETTERMENT 284 Profit Sharing
457
Welfare Work
458
Coöperative Movements
459
Theories of Governmental Attitude
461
Extent of Government Regulation
462
Government Ownership
463
Socialism
464
The Method of Progress
466
The Force of Public Opinion
467
Your United States
469
APPENDIX A CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
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477
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478
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APPENDIX B STATISTICS OF THE STATES AND THE POSSESSIONS
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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502
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Seite 481 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Seite 476 - ... 2 The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. 3 No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4 No capitation, or other direct tax, shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Seite 473 - Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either House on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Seite 486 - ... on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Seite 481 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Seite 479 - President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them. 8. Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation : " I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will,...
Seite 480 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Seite 480 - State, between citizens of different States, between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State, or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens, or subjects.
Seite 475 - Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions; 16^ To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress...
Seite 473 - ... Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each house may provide.

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