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READINGS IN RECENT

AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL

HISTORY

1876-1926

EDITED BY

ALLEN JOHNSON

SOMETIME PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN YALE UNIVERSITY

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COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Printed in the United States of America

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This volume has grown out of the needs of a class in constitutional history in Yale University. Not only are there no adequate treatises dealing with the development of American polity since the Civil War, but the material for such studies is not always accessible even in well-equipped libraries. While there are numerous treatises and collections of source material in such specialized fields as constitutional law, transportation, and corporate regulation, the extraordinary expansion of Federal authority and the less obvious structural changes in both Federal and State Governments are often overlooked. Histories of the period, moreover, stress the give and take of political groups, or the push and pull of economic forces, without tracing the institutional consequences of these contests and conflicts. The editors of this volume, therefore, have brought together selections from various sources which illustrate the most significant phases in the constitutional development of the last fifty years. In general they have been guided by the same considerations that determined the choice of material in an earlier volume of Readings in American Constitutional History, 1776-1876, to which indeed this is a sequel. While intended primarily as a case-book for college classes, it is hoped that this volume will prove useful to the lawyer, the holder of public office, and all persons who are interested in problems of American government and citizenship.

The editors take this opportunity to express their appreciation of many helpful suggestions received from James P. Richardson, Esq., Parker Professor of Law and Political Science in Dartmouth College.

ALLEN JOHNSON
WILLIAM A. ROBINSON

For permission to reprint selections the editors are indebted to the following:

D. Appleton and Company for Principles of Railroad Transportation by Johnson and Van Metre; and for Principles of American State Administration by John M. Mathews.

Baker, Voorhis and Company for Constitutional Law in United States by W. W. Willoughby.

The Century Company for State Government by Walter F. Dodd.

Henry Holt and Company for Common Sense Applied to Woman Suffrage by Mary Putnam-Jacobi; and for Election of Senators by G. H. Haynes. Longmans, Green and Company for Railroads: Rates and Regulations by W. Z. Ripley.

The S. S. McClure Company for Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs by G. S. Boutwell.

The Macmillan Company for American Commonwealth by James Bryce; and for The National Budget System by Charles W. Collins; and for Trust Problem in the United States by Eliot Jones; and for Essays in Municipal Administration by John A. Fairlie.

G. P. Putnam's Sons for Principles of the Administrative Law of the United States by Frank J. Goodnow.

Charles Scribner's Sons for Four Aspects of Civic Duty by W. H. Taft and Introduction to Political Parties by P. O. Ray.

University of Chicago Press for Primary Elections by C. E. Merriam. University of Pennsylvania for Federal Subsidies to the States by Austin F. Macdonald.

American Journal of International Law, April, 1907, for San Francisco School Controversy by Elihu Root.

The American Political Science Review, May, 1916, for Administrative Decisions in Connection with Immigration by L. F. Post.

The American Review of Reviews, July, 1923, for What's the Matter with Congress? by F. W. Mondell.

The Atlantic Monthly, October, 1903, for Power of the Senate by S. W. McCall.

The Congressional Digest, November, 1922, for Digest of Budget and Accounting Act and National Financing by W. F. Willoughly.

The Contemporary Review, April, 1908, for American Senate as a Second Chamber by Allen Johnson.

The Forum, November, 1894, for Should Senators Be Elected by the People? by G. F. Edmunds.

The Independent, January 27, 1910, for Presidential Electoral System by James W. Garner.

Law Quarterly Review, October, 1907, for Government by Injunction by
William H. Dunbar.

The Nation, March 20, 1902, for Editorial on Senatorial Elections.
Political Science Quarterly, September, 1905, for Treaties and Executive
Agreements by John B. Moore; and in the issue for December, 1903, for
State Boards and Commissions by F. H. White.

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