UNIV. OF WORKING MANUAL OF ORIGINAL SOURCES IN AMERICAN BY MILTON CONOVER BALTIMORE THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS NO VIMU COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY JR38 The Lord Baltimore Press BALTIMORE, MD., U. S. A. 970 FOREWORD As a supplement to the collegiate textbooks on American Government, these problems aim to introduce the student to the general field of original sources in the American Federal system including its component National, State, Municipal and Local units, so that he may perceive this Government as one composite living organism executing its many coördinated functions. The problems aim further to cultivate in the student the creative instincts and to afford a constructive expression of the productive energies that easily may be suppressed by overmuch receptive reading of textbooks and passive attention to lectures-which all too often has tended to reaction in a calamitous direction-instead of stimulating a wholesome and dynamic citizenship. Accordingly, the exercises have been adapted to the Congressional set of public documents found in every library that is a complete depository of the National government; and, they have been arranged so that all of the students may exercise free coöperation in working out their individual assignments in such a manner that their several findings may illuminate for the whole class, the general topic. Thus the problems avowedly attempt to utilize two institutions that exist only in standard colleges and urban communities-complete libraries of original sources arranged in working alcoves; and, classes large enough to warrant organized team work. Each exercise includes fifty different assignments, each intended for a different student, it being presumed that classes containing more than fifty members will be given special assignments or duplicates of those listed, and that where large classes are divided into several sections of about twenty-five members each, the assignments may be divided so as to avoid duplication of work in any two sections. Topics of kindred interest are designated by the same number in various exercises. For instance, assignments numbered I to 10 in each exercise are topics primarily of historical interest, while those numbered II to 50 relate to political problems that recur in corresponding assignments in several of the exer 570935 |