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Excerpt from Government: Its Origin, Growth, and Form in the United States The majority of text-books on civil government in the United States have followed one of two methods in their treatment of the subject. One introduces the student directly to existing institutions and explains their functions, with little or no attempt to show their origin. The other begins with the more imperfect forms of local government and builds up from these to the federal system. However logical either of these methods may appear, experience has shown that the average student, conversant with American history and not that of his State, is much more familiar with the form and powers of the general government than he is with those of local governments. It was this fact that induced the authors to prepare this work on the Federal Government, in the hope that the student having thus gained an acquaintance with this, the more perfect system, would be better equipped to take up the study of his more complex State and local governments. Furthermore, it was considered of the utmost importance, before discussing the present federal system, to familiarize the student with those general principles upon which all governments rest, and with the source and growth of free institutions in England and her colonial possessions in America. This is done in Parts First and Second. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.