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GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

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UNITED STATES

IN

HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor

History is past Politics and Politics present History - Freeman

NINTH SERIES

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GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

OF THE

UNITED STATES

BY

WESTEL W. WILLOUGHBY, A. B.
Fellow in History

AND

WILLIAM F. WILLOUGHBY, A. B.
U. S. Department of Labor

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