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The Footprints of Time: And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological Order — John Shaqi

The Footprints of Time: And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological OrderBancroft, Charles

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The Footprints of Time: And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological Order

Name: The Footprints of Time: And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological Order
Author: Bancroft, Charles

Bancroft, Charles

United States -- History; United States -- Politics and government

THE
                           FOOTPRINTS OF TIME:

                             AND A COMPLETE
                                ANALYSIS
                             OF OUR AMERICAN
                          SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT,

                                 WITH A
                CONCISE HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL COLONIES
               AND OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CHRONOLOGICAL
                       ORDER: FACTS AND STATISTICS
                              FROM OFFICIAL
                                SOURCES.

                          BY CHARLES BANCROFT.

                         R. T. ROOT, PUBLISHER,
                            BURLINGTON, IOWA.
                                  1875.

         Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874,
                             BY R. T. ROOT,
    In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.



[Illustration: George Washington

Painted by G. Stuart Engraved by A.B. Walter, Phila.]




PREFACE.


It is the object of this book to supply the means of forming an accurate
idea of the American government. The author has adopted the proposition
that the highest style of government is one “_of_ the people, _by_ the
people, and _for_ the people,” and believes that a constant progress,
commencing in the earliest times, has reached its full development in
the Great Republic. He therefore traces THE FOOTPRINTS OF TIME through
all history; notes the gradual unfolding of institutions, the rise and
fall of empires, the causes that produced and destroyed the ancient
republics, and the origin of the forces that give so much more strength
and stability to modern civilization. All this he considers essential to
a correct appreciation of the wonderful events of our age and country.

He then proceeds to a close and clear analysis of the whole structure
of the government. Each general division, with its sub-divisions, is
examined in detail, but successively; so that a definite picture of it,
with all its branches, operations, and relations to other parts, stands
before the mind as a sharply defined whole. The Executive, Legislative,
and Judicial divisions—the dependent parts of each kept in proper
place—come in order, one after the other, before the mind, the structure,
powers and working of each being fully explained.

The book is indeed a compilation, and the matter in large part from
official sources, but collected from an astonishingly large number of
books, all of which are not to be found even in the largest public
libraries; but the labor and merit of gathering so much from all
directions and compressing a library into a form and compass so
convenient, and so well arranged, in so few and well chosen words, has
been great indeed.

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The Footprints of Time: And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological Order

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