Government in the United States, National, State and Local
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My aim in the preparation of this book has been to present in an elementary way the leading facts concerning the organization and activities of national, state, and local government in the United States. I have given rather greater emphasis than is customarily done in textbooks of this character to what may be called the dynamics of government, that is, its actual workings, as contradistinguished from organization. Likewise, I have laid especial stress upon the activities and methods of political parties, party conventions, primaries, the conduct of political campaigns, the regulation of campaign methods, and the like. The increasing importance of citizenship has led me to devote a chapter to that subject. To encourage wider reading among students, I have added to each chapter a brief list of references to books which should be in every high school library. The great value of illustrative material as a means of acquainting students with the spirit and actual methods of government is now recognized. For the convenience of teachers, I have therefore added at the end of each chapter a list of documentary and other illustrative material, most of which can be procured without cost and all of which may be used to advantage in supplementing the descriptive matter in the textbook.
International Law and the World War, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Dr. L. Oppenheim, WheweU Professor of International Law at Cambridge University. Like most international jurists, he was deeply stirred by the numerous and shocking violations of that law which he justly regarded as one of the most notable achievements of modem civilization and to the understanding of which he had contributed so much by his researches and writings. It was his desire that I should review the conduct of the belligerents in respect to their interpretation and application of the rules of international law, compare it with the opinion of the authorities and the practice in former wars and wherever infractions appeared, to endeavor to determine the responsibility and to place it where it properly belonged. I fully shared his view that the latter task was one whicii jurists and text writers, who are in a sense the guardians and defenders of the law of nations, could not neglect without ignoring their duty to the law and to the cause of justice which it was designed to promote. With this view of my duty I have made a conscientious effort to evaluate the evidence so far as it was available, and wherever possible to arrive at conclusions as to the truth or falsity of the charges and counter-charges in respect to infractions. Naturally, the task of preparing a work of this kind during the progress of the war was beset by many difficulties. With the archives of foreign offices closed to historians and investigators, and with newspapers and books published in enemy countries shut out by blockades and censorships, important sources of information were necessarily inaccessible to me. After the United States became a belligerent not even technical and scientific publications were admitted from enemy countries.
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Combining theory, comparative politics, and international relations, Introduction to Politics provides a perfect introduction to the study of global politics. An accessible writing style, analytical approach, and a wide range of international examples to contextualize the content make it an ideal foundation for first-year politics students. As the only introductory text to cover both comparative politics and international relations, it is the most comprehensive, authoritative, and global introductory politics textbook on the market.
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Idées Et Institutions Politiques Américaines: Conférences du Cercle Français de l'Université Harvard; Fondation James Hazen Hyde; Faites aux ... en 1921 (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
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Grâce à l'ad0ption de ces mesures démocratiques et d'autres encore, l'amérique tend de plus en plus, comme je l'ai dit, à devenir une démocratie directe. Dans nul autre pays, l'électeur n'est appelé à exercer des fonctions si nombreuses et si variées. Sous cette forme, la démocratie entraîne pour l'électeur une formidable dépense de temps, d'efforts et même d'ar gent. Une machine gouvernementale, comme celle des Etats - Unis, ne peut fonctionner qu'à ce prix. Certes, il n'est pas douteux qu'elle entraîne une cer taine perte de rendement administratif et peut - être 3pssi de responsabilité administrative. Mais les Amé ricains estiment que cet inconvénient est plus que compensé par les avantages éducatifs et civiques qui résultent de la large participation du peuple à la direction et au contrôle de ses affaires publiques.
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James Wilford Garner was an American professor of political science.
Background
Garner was born on November 22, 1871 in Pike County, Mississippi, the oldest of six children (four boys and two girls) of William Oliver and Martha A. (McEwen) Garner. On his father's side he was of French Huguenot and English stock, the family having settled first in Northumberland County, Virginia, from which descendants moved to South Carolina and later to Mississippi. His mother, of Scottish descent, came of a family interested in law and public affairs. Young Garner grew up on his father's farm, sharing from his earliest years in the hard work involved in farming at that time.
Education
Garner read insatiably, however, during evenings, developed an ambition to be something more than a farmer, completed his elementary education in the local schools, and put himself through the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College (later Mississippi State College) by farm labor in his spare time, graduating in 1892 with the B. S. degree. After teaching school for four years, Garner entered the University of Chicago in 1896 as a graduate student in history and political science. He received a master's degree (Ph. M. ) in 1900, having meanwhile taught history for two years at Bradley Polytechnic Institute (later Bradley University) in Peoria, Illinois. With the aid of a fellowship he continued his studies at Columbia University, where he received the Ph. D. degree in history and political science in 1902. His doctoral dissertation, Reconstruction in Mississippi (1901), written under the guidance of Professor William A. Dunning, won wide recognition as one of the best and most impartial studies of southern reconstruction. He later received honorary degrees from Oberlin, Columbia, and the universities of Lyons and Calcutta.
Career
After graduating, Garner taught history for a year at Columbia, political science the following year at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1904 joined the faculty of the University of Illinois. At Illinois, where he remained the rest of his life, he established and headed the department of political science, of which he was at first the sole member, building it up to one of the largest and most distinguished of its kind in the country. Before leaving the area of history, however, he collaborated with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in writing a four-volume History of the United States (1906), a popular work in its day. Garner was an excellent teacher, his lectures marked by careful preparation and scholarly presentation, combined with obvious sincerity, great enthusiasm, and wit. He was constantly engaged in research and writing. His early interests lay in political theory and French government, but the first World War turned his attention to international law, which became thereafter his absorbing specialty. He wrote more than a dozen books, edited and translated others, and published nearly three hundred articles in professional journals at home and abroad. Of his books, perhaps the most notable were his International Law and the World War (2 vols. , 1920) and Recent Developments in International Law (1925). When the Research in International Law project of the Harvard Law School prepared, in anticipation of the First Conference on the Codification of International Law, a number of draft conventions, Garner acted as reporter in the drafting of the convention on the law of treaties. He edited the American Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology for two years (1910-1911) and served on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law from 1924 until his death, contributing to almost every number. He also wrote regularly for the Revue Politique et Parlementaire, the British Year Book of International Law, and other foreign journals. Garner's work won him worldwide recognition. He participated actively in community and church affairs, serving for several years on the Urbana (Illinois) city council and writing lengthy memoranda on agricultural, charitable, and correctional problems for the Illinois Efficiency and Economy Committee. At first determinedly objective in his writings, he became increasingly concerned with the trend of public affairs, especially in the international sphere, and spoke his mind more and more freely and vigorously in his classes, at public meetings, and in his writings. Thus he severely condemned German conduct in the first World War; he became highly critical of American foreign policy between the two wars, especially the failure to join the League of Nations; and, just before his death, he prepared an address on the Spanish Civil War in which he strongly attacked the failure of the Allies and the United States to assist the republican government. Although in unusually good health all his life, he was stricken with pneumococcic meningitis after a trip to Washington late in 1938 and died twelve days later. He was buried in Magnolia, Mississipi, where he had purchased a home to which he and Mrs. Garner had expected to retire the next year.
Achievements
Garner was a noted professor of political science, who is also remembered as editor in chief of the American Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.
Primarily a teacher and scholar, Garner was not an active member of any political party and maintained a nonpartisan attitude toward most questions in political controversy.
Membership
President of the American Political Science Association (1924), honorary Vice-president of the American Society of International Law (1931), President of the Institute of International Law (1935)
Connections
On December 24, 1895, Garner married Therese Leggett of Magnolia, Mississippi. They had no children.
