THE GOVERNMENT
OF INDIANA
THE GOVERNMENT
OF INDIANA
BY
DEMARCHUS C. BROWN
STATE LIBRARIAN OF INDIANA; MEMBER OF BOARD OF STATE CHARITIES; TRANSLATOR OF "SELECTIONS FROM LUCIAN"; FREUDENTHAL'S "AMERICAN PENOLOGY"; COMPILER OF LEGISLATIVE MANUAL OF INDIANA FOR 1907 AND 1909
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1912
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
PREFACE
THE temptation to express individual judgment on the merits and results of constitutional provisions in Indiana is very great. The object of the present book is not to do that, but to give the facts, and that in outline, for the use of schools. For the grammar grades these simple facts are enough, in the opinion of the writer. The high school student must think and investigate somewhat for himself. He should make the references carefully. The teacher will assign other books which should be read with interest. The Commonwealth of Indiana is now old enough to have a profound interest in the history and government of the State. Pupils in the public schools ought to be encouraged and instructed in the study of early Middle West affairs. Popular government is yet in a formative, even chaotic, condition. The leading facts about the form of the government must therefore be taught to students in the grades and high schools. That is the object of this small volume. DEMARCHUS C. BROWN.
January, 1912.
page: [vi][View Page [vi]] page: vii[View Page vii]REFERENCES
THESE references are intended primarily for the teacher, who should choose the chapter or paragraph bearing directly upon the subject under discussion and encourage the pupils to read more than is given in this small manual. The intelligent enthusiasm of the teacher will decide whether the pupils become interested and learn much about this subject of civil government.
GENERAL
- Boone--History of Education in Indiana.
- Bryce--The American Commonwealth.
- Burnet--Early Settlement of the Northwest Territory.
- Cockrum--Pioneer History of Indiana.
- DeTocqueville--Republic of the United States of America.
- Dillon--History of Indiana.
- Dunn--Indiana.
- English--The Conquest of the Northwest.
- Hinsdale--The Old Northwest.
- Indiana Board of State Charities--Reports.
- Indiana Documents.
- Indiana Historical Society--Publications.
- Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History.
- Levering--Historic Indiana.
- Lieber--Civil Liberty and Self Government.
- McCarty--Territorial Governors of the Old Northwest.
- Poore--Charters and Constitutions.
- Roosevelt--Winning of the West.
- Slocum--The Ohio Country.
- Thwaites--How George Rogers Clark Won the Northwest.
- Wilson--The State.
- Winsor--The Westward Movement.
- Winsor--The Mississippi Basin.
THE CONSTITUTION
- Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1850.
- Dodd--Review and Amendment of State Constitutions.
- Hendricks--History and Civil Government of Indiana.
- Hitchcock--American State Constitutions.
- Howard--Local Constitutional History of the United States.
- Jameson--The Constitutional Conventions.
- Lindley--Civics of Indiana.
- Rawles--Centralizing Tendencies in the Administration of Indiana.
- Rawles--Civil Government of Indiana.
- Stimson--Federal and State Constitutions of the United States.
- Thornton--The Constitutional Convention of 1850.
- Thornton--The Government of the State of Indiana.
- Thorpe--Federal and State Constitutions.
COUNTY AND CITY
- Hendricks--History and Civil Government of Indiana.
- Howe--The City: The Hope of Democracy.
- Lindley--Civics of Indiana.
- National Municipal League--Proceedings.
- Rawles--Centralizing Tendencies in the Administration of Indiana.
- Rawles--Civil Government of Indiana.