Author: Thomas Chalmers McCorvey

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Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781330905814

Excerpt from The Government of the People, of the State of Alabama The growing demand for instruction in Civics was emphasized by the recommendation of the Governor of Alabama, in his special message on educational matters to the General Assembly at its last session, that "the Constitutions - State and Federal - be made a branch of study in our public schools." This little volume has been prepared as a text-book for this instruction, so far as the civil government of Alabama is concerned, and its aim is to give briefly and clearly the leading facts in the civic history of the State as well as the present workings of the governmental machinery. Like all school books, its usefulness must depend in a large measure upon the way in which it is supplemented by the work of the living teacher. To the teachers of Alabama, therefore, I commit it with the hope that they may make it effective in fostering in the youth of the State a just conception of the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. While an enumeration of all the authorities consulted would be entirely out of proportion to the little book itself, I wish to make here an acknowledgment of my indebtedness, chiefly in the first two chapters, to the works of Albert J, Pickett, Alexander B. Meek, Willis Brewer, and Hannis Taylor, and to such of the recent writings of Grace King and of John Fiske as touch upon the early history of the territory now embraced in the State of Alabama. I am also indebted to Professor W. S. Wyman's paper on "The First European Settlement in Alabama," printed in the Proceedings of the Alabama Educational Association for 1893, and to a sketch of the "Origin and Early Growth of Mobile," published in the Diamond edition of the Mobile Daily Register, January 31, 1895. My thanks are due and are hereby cordially tendered to President Richard C. Jones and Professor Benjamin F. Meek, of the University of Alabama, for helpful criticisms and for patient aid in reading the proofs. 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.