How Government Functions in Indiana
BYRoss F. Lockridge
, A.B., LL.B.ASSOCIATE STATE DIRECTOR OF
LABOR FOR INDIANA
EMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE DIRECTOR OF
WAYNE KNITTING MILLS, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA
An Indiana Supplement to Thomas Harrison
Reed's
FORM AND FUNCTIONS OF AMERICAN
GOVERNMENT
YONKERS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK
WORLD BOOK COMPANY
1918
Copyright, 1918, by World Book Company
All rights
reserved
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- VOCATIONAL CIVICS 7
- CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
11
- Beginning of Statehood 11
- Method of Revision 11
- Some Criticisms of the Constitution of 1816 12
- Convention of 1850-51 12
- Amending the Constitution 12
- Demands for Revision 14
- Proposed Constitution of 1911 15
- Attempts to Call Convention 16
- SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS
19
- Qualifications for Voters 19
- Woman's Suffrage 19
- Alien Suffrage 20
- Registration 21
- Elections 21
- Corruption in Elections 22
- The Long Ballot 23
- Conclusion 25
- EDUCATION
27
- Education as a Function of Government 27
- Magnitude of System 27
- State Superintendent 28
- State Board of Education 29
- County Superintendent 30
- School Trustees 30
- Teachers 31
- Teachers' Pensions 32
- Consolidation of Schools 33
- Higher Institutions of Learning 34
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- University Extension 35
- Vocational Education 36
- War Work in the Schools 38
- DEPARTMENTS AND ADMINISTRATION
40
- Distribution of Powers 40
- EXECUTIVE
41
- Executive Powers 41
- Administrative Relations 41
- Lack of Harmony 42
- The Governor May Demand Publicity 43
- Relation of Legislature 43
- Veto Power 43
- The Budget System 45
- Pardoning Power 46
- Appointments 46
- Military Powers 46
- The Spokesman of the People 47
- Short Ballot 47
- Local Administration 48
- LEGISLATIVE
48
- Membership of Houses 48
- Length of Session 49
- Bicameral System 50
- Representative Government 50
- Special Legislation 51
- Representation in Congress 52
- JUDICIAL
52
- Organization of Courts 52
- Delay 55
- The Jury 56
- Selection and Term of Judges 57
- Lawyers' Qualifications 57
- Impeachment 58
- Federal Jurisdiction 58
- TAXATION 59
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- CITY GOVERNMENT
63
- Peculiar Problem 63
- City Growth in Indiana 64
- Lack of City System 64
- Classification of Cities 65
- System of Government 66
- Public Utilities 67
- Need of Home Rule 68
- Special Legislation 69
- GENERAL WELFARE
72
- Public Policy and the Individual 72
- Public Health 72
- Charities and Corrections 74
- Reformative System 75
- Compulsory Education 76
- Child Labor 77
- Anti-Cigarette Law 78
- Liquor Prohibition 78
- Labor and Social Justice 79
- Indiana and the War 81
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 85
- ROSTER OF OFFICIALS 87
- CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF INDIANA 95
