counties are too large
Tendency of the school district to develop into something like a township
Local institutions in colonial Maryland; the hundred
Clans; brotherhoods, or phratries; and tribes
Origin of the hundred; the hundred court; the high constable
Decay of the hundred; hundred-meeting in Maryland
The hundred in Delaware; the levy court, or representative county assembly
The old Pennsylvania county
Town-meetings in New Tort
The county board of supervisors
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
Section 2. Settlement of the Public Domain.
Westward movement of population along parallels of latitude
Method of surveying the public lands
Origin of townships in the West
Formation of counties in the West
Some effects of this system
The reservation of a section for public schools
In this reservation there were the germs of township government
But at first the county system prevailed
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
Section 3. The Representative Township-County System in the West.
The town-meeting in Michigan
Conflict between township and county systems in Illinois
Effects of the Ordinance of 1787
Intense vitality of the township system
County option and township option in Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Dakota
Grades of township government in the West
An excellent result of the absence of centralization in the United
States
Effect of the self-governing school district in the South, in preparing the way for the self-governing township
Woman-suffrage in the school district
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS AND DIRECTIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
CHAPTER V.
THE CITY.
Section 1. Direct and Indirect Government.
Summary of the foregoing results; township government is direct, county government is indirect
Representative government is necessitated in a county by the extent of territory, and in a city by the multitude of people
Josiah Quincy's account of the Boston town-meeting in 1830
Distinctions between towns and cities in America and in England
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
Section 2. Origin of English Boroughs and Cities.
Origin of the chesters and casters in Roman camps
Coalescence of towns into fortified boroughs
The borough as a hundred; it acquires a court
The borough as a county; it acquires a sheriff
Government of London under Henry I
The guilds; the town guild, and Guild Hall
Government of London as perfected in the thirteenth century; mayor, aldermen, and common council
The city of London, and the metropolitan district
English cities were for a long time the bulwarks of liberty
Simon de Montfort and the cities
Oligarchical abuses in English cities, beginning with the Tudor period
The Municipal Reform Act of 1835
Government of the city of New York before the Revolution
Changes after the Revolution
City government in Philadelphia in the eighteenth century
The very tradition of good government was lacking in these cities
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
Section 3. The Government of Cities in the United States.
Several features of our municipal governments
In many cases they do not seem to work well
Rapid growth of American cities
Some consequences of this rapid growth
Wastefulness resulting from want of foresight
Growth in complexity of government in cities
Illustrated by list of municipal officers in Boston.
How city government comes to be a mystery to the citizens, in some respects harder to understand than state and national government
Dread of the "one-man power" has in many cases led to scattering and weakening of responsibility
Committees inefficient for executive purposes; the "Circumlocution
Office"
Alarming increase of city debts, and various attempts to remedy the evil
Experience of New York with state interference in municipal affairs; unsatisfactory results
The Tweed Ring in New York
The present is a period of experiments
The new government
