Excerpt from The Government of Minnesota, Its History and Administration It has been the purpose of the author to present in a small volume a harmonious picture of the history and government of the commonwealth of Minnesota. There is a pressing and crying need for good teaching in civil government, a subject which has been and is largely neglected in our public schools. To facilitate such teaching carefully prepared books are necessary. This volume is an attempt thoroughly to analyze the functions of a State government, and in addition to open the way to teacher and pupil to the sources of information. At the foot of many pages are numerous references, while at the end of the book is an appendix containing historical material for more extensive work than the text affords. With such aid the teacher can go back of text-book statement into the spirit of our commonwealth's institutions. The effort in Chapters I and II is to place the history of the State before the student; following these chapters are two others on the general machinery of the government. The remainder of the book is devoted to the actual workings of the machinery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Government of Minnesota In preparing this account of the way Minnesota is governed, the author has sought to make the framework and the operations of the government stand out as realities in a living world, but he well knows that a text-book can only imperfectly succeed in such a task. The responsibility of leading youth to an understanding and appreciation of the political organization by which they are surrounded, and above all, the giving of the proper attitude toward public matters, must depend largely upon the kind of atmosphere furnished by the home and by the school. The text-book in civil government is only an aid to the study of the subject. The one here presented presupposes some observation of governmental arrangements, such at least as are made in most schools of the grammar grade, in "general lessons," or in connection with civic leagues or young citizens' clubs, such as are described in the "Course of Study" recently published by the Department of Public Instruction. The provisions of the Constitution and the statutes have been made the starting-point in discussing the activities of the government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Government of Minnesota, Its History and Administration by Frank L. McVey. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1901 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

Excerpt from History and Civil Government of Minnesota, And, the Government of the United States That our schools give so little attention to the his tory and civil_ government of Minnesota surprises no one who has given a moment's thought to the fact that the student who would gain anything like an adequate knowledge of these important subjects must make himself familiar with the contents of several bulky volumes prepared for the general reader or for the student of law. In View of this fact it is evident that the study of the history and civil government of our state cannot receive the attention its importance demands until a suitable text-book is placed in the hands of pupils and teachers. To the preparation of such a work the writer has given much time and thought, and this vol ume, Part I and Part II, is the result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.