To Enlarge the Machinery of Government Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State 1858 1891 1st Edition by Williamjames Hull Hoffer ISBN 978-0801886553 0801886554

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ISBN 10: 0801886554

ISBN 13: 978-0801886553

Author: Williamjames Hull Hoffer

How did the federal government change from the weak apparatus of the antebellum period to the large, administrative state of the Progressive Era? To Enlarge the Machinery of Government explores the daily proceedings of the U.S. House and Senate from 1858 to 1891 to find answers to this question.

Through close readings of debates centered around sponsorship, supervision, and standardization recorded in the Congressional Globe and Congressional Record during this period, Williamjames Hull Hoffer traces a critical shift in ideas that ultimately ushered in Progressive legislation: the willingness of American citizens to allow, and in fact ask for, federal intervention in their daily lives. He describes this era of congressional thought as a “second state,” distinct from both the minimalist approaches that came before and the Progressive state building that developed later. The “second state” era, Hoffer contends, offers valuable insight into how conceptions of American uniqueness contributed to the shape of the federal government.

Table of contents: 

1. Sponsorship and the First Debate on Land Grant Colleges
2. Sponsorship and Supervision of Agriculture and Land Grant Colleges 
3. Sponsoring and Supervising the Freedmen, Abandoned Lands, and Refugees
4. The Supervision and Standardization of Education and Law Enforcement
5. Standardizing Schooling and the Civil Service 
6. Supervising Labor and Commerce
7. Standardizing Labor and the Courts

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