Excerpt from Our Government Local, State, and National

The subject-matter herewith presented partially repte sents the plan pursued by the authors as teachers of civil government for a number of years in high school, academy, and normal school. It has been found that a study of the methods by which the affairs of government are conducted gives constant interest to the work, and, consequently, the practical side of government has been emphasized. But while our desire has been to bring the actual working of the institutions under which the student lives into promi nence, we have also attempted to give such accounts of the origin and early development of forms of government as will assist in explaining their process of growth. The plan of discussion is similar to that followed in Government in State and Nation. The general favor with which that text has been received leads to the belief that it fully meets the requirement of the Committee of Seven for such schools as present civil government in the third or fourth year of the course. In many cases, however, the subject is taught earlier in the course, and the present work has been pre pared in answer to the requests of teachers for a text suitable to this class of students.

The arrangement is such that either Local (part I), National (part II), or State Government (part III) may be studied first. In the work on local and State govern ment it is not expected that the student will learn all of the different practices found in the various States, but that he will compare them with those of his own State.

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