Municipal Home Rule: A Study in Administration 1895
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Comparative Administrative Law: An Analysis of the Administrative Systems, National and Local, of the United States, England, France and Germany. 2 Vo
(Reprint of the first edition. Volume I: Organization. Vol...)
Reprint of the first edition. Volume I: Organization. Volume II: Legal Relations. Referring to this book in One Hundred Years of Administrative Law (1937), Arthur Vanderbilt wrote that "Goodnow was the first to perceive the peculiar significance for the study of administrative law of the comparative method as applied to the administrative systems of France, Germany, England and the United States, which, although involving common problems, also present sharp contrasts at many vital points" (I:120-121).
While a member of the Columbia faculty, FRANK J. GOODNOW 1859-1939 was the first individual in the United States to hold a professorship in administrative law. He became the first president of the American Political Science Association, which offers an annual award in his name. He was president of Johns Hopkins University from 1915- 1929.
(Excerpt from Municipal Problems
IN a former book, flizmz'...)
Excerpt from Municipal Problems
IN a former book, flizmz'cz'pa! Home Rule, the attempt was made to ascertain what had been the effects of the various constitutional provisions adopted in the United States for the purpose of securing municipal home rule, what according to the decisions of our courts was the content of the sphere of municipal as distinguished from state activity, and what had been the success of the methods adopted in foreign countries to insure municipal autonomy.
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The Principles of the Administrative Law of the United States
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Frank Johnson Goodnow was an American educator and legal scholar.
Background
Goodnow was born on January 18, 1859, in Brooklyn, New York, the younger in a family of two sons of Abel Franklin and Jane Maria (Root) Goodnow. His father, the descendant of an early settler in Massachusetts, had charge of the New York office of a Shelburne Falls, Massachussets, cutlery manufacturing firm.
Education
Goodnow attended Amherst College, graduating in 1879. After a year with the firm of Buchanan and Lyall, Brooklyn tobacco merchants, he entered the Columbia Law School, receiving the LL. B. degree in 1882. Goodnow's honors included degrees from seven colleges and universities, including Columbia (1904) and Harvard (1909).
Career
Goodnow's first position, in the law office of John Forrest Dillon, presaged his future interest in municipal affairs, for Dillon had written the pioneer treatise on municipal corporations. Within a year, however, Goodnow's career turned toward teaching. Columbia's new school of political science included a post in administrative law, the first in the country. The premature death of its initial occupant early in 1883 opened the way for Goodnow's appointment on May 7 as instructor in history and lecturer on administrative law. By way of preparation he spent the next year in Europe, studying at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques and at the University of Berlin. In 1887 he was promoted to adjunct professor and in 1891 to professor of administrative law. In 1903 he was named to the new chair of Eaton Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science, the title being broadened in 1913 to Eaton Professor of Public Law and Municipal Science. Goodnow resigned from the Columbia faculty in the spring of 1914 to become president of the Johns Hopkins University, a position he held until his retirement in 1929. He presided in a period of relocation and growth. During his administration the removal to a new campus at Homewood, Baltimore, was completed, the Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology was opened, plans for the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations were developed, and both the assets of the university and student enrollment increased nearly fourfold. Goodnow's management of finances was especially capable. Less successful was his proposal, advanced in 1925, that Johns Hopkins give up elementary undergraduate work and degrees in favor of advanced work of graduate caliber, beginning at the level of the junior year and continuing to a graduate degree. Throughout his Hopkins years Goodnow remained a teacher, continuing as president to lecture and direct research in public law. Goodnow's scholarly career was one of action and application. He served on the commission in 1900 that redrafted the New York City charter. He was a prime mover in founding the American Political Science Association in 1903 and was its first president. He participated in the National Civic Federation's commission on public ownership, headed its subcommittee on plan and scope, and in 1906 made studies in England for it. In 1911-1912 he was an active member of President Taft's Commission on Efficiency and Economy; and later he guided budgetary reform in Maryland. For some sixteen years he served on the Maryland Board of School Commissioners. In the spring of 1913, soon after the creation of the Chinese Republic, Goodnow was called to China as legal adviser to President Yuan Shi-kai. Late in 1913 he prepared a draft of a constitution for China, but there is no indication that it had any influence. On the other hand, two memoranda he prepared at President Yuan's request (in 1914 and in the summer of 1915), discussing the readiness of China for parliamentary government, were used by Yuan to promote his own interests, in the one case to help justify an increase in executive power, in the other to foster a movement to make him emperor. His first book, Comparative Administrative Law, appeared in two volumes in 1893. In 1905 he reworked the domestic materials in a text entitled The Principles of the Administrative Law of the United States. He also compiled case books on the law of officers and the law of taxation. In Municipal Home Rule; A Study in Administration (1895) he argued for the granting to cities of greater powers of local government, which should be balanced by state administrative supervision. In 1897 these views were embodied in a more general treatment, Municipal Problems, followed by a text, Municipal Government, in 1909. Meanwhile Goodnow had written a brief book of wider scope, Politics and Administration (1900), that was destined to be the most remembered of his writings. Looking below legal forms but mindful of their purpose, he identified two main processes - formulating the public will and expressing it; and he pointed to this distinction as the basis of a true separation of powers and the foundation of responsible expertise. Nor was Goodnow indifferent to issues of legislative power. His Social Reform and the Constitution (1911) raised the question of whether the United States Constitution was a bar to the important social reform measures characteristic of "the most progressive peoples of the present day. " Goodnow's later books were more generally expository. Lectures at Peking were reworked in Principles of Constitutional Government, published in 1916. His last book was China: An Analysis (1926). Goodnow suffered a serious stroke in the summer of 1935 and died four years later in Baltimore. He was buried in Norfolk, Connecticut, where for many years he had had a summer home.
President of the American Political Science Association (1903), member of the Commission on Efficiency and Economy (1911-1912), President of Johns Hopkins University
Connections
On June 2, 1886, Goodnow married Elizabeth Buchanan Lyall of Brooklyn. They had three children.