| PAGE | ||
| Preface | v | |
| PART I | ||
| THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENT | ||
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | Human Society | 1 |
| II. | The People, Races, and Racial Problems of the United States | 19 |
| III. | Economic Factors and Organization | 37 |
| PART II | ||
| THE ORGANIZATION OF GOVERNMENT | ||
| THE FOUNDATIONS OF GOVERNMENT | ||
| IV. | The Nature and Forms of Government | 62 |
| V. | The Citizen: His Rights and Duties | 78 |
| VI. | Popular Control of Government | 94 |
| THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM | ||
| VII. | Suffrage and Elections | 118 |
| VIII. | Party Organization and Practical Politics | 145 |
| LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT | ||
| IX. | Counties and Rural Communities | 166 |
| X. | City Government | 182 |
| XI. | Municipal Problems of Today | 203 |
| XII. | State Government in Outline | 226 |
| NATIONAL GOVERNMENT | ||
| XIII. | The National Constitution | 246 |
| XIV. | Congress at Work | 266 |
| XV. | The President and his Cabinet | 286 |
| XVI. | The Courts and the Law | 308 |
| PART III | ||
| THE CIVIC ACTIVITIES | ||
| ECONOMIC | ||
| XVII. | Natural Resources and Conservation | 326 |
| XVIII. | The Agricultural Interests | 339 |
| XIX. | The Encouragement and Regulation of Commerce | 356 |
| XX. | The Organization and Control of Industry | 383 |
| XXI. | Labor and Labor Problems | 400 |
| XXII. | Currency, Banking, and Credit | 424 |
| XXIII. | Taxation and Public Finance | 450 |
| XXIV. | Public Utilities and Public Ownership | 474 |
| SOCIAL | ||
| XXV. | Education | 492 |
| XXVI. | Public Health and Sanitation | 514 |
| XXVII. | Poor-Relief, Correction, and Other Welfare Problems | 540 |
| INTERNATIONAL | ||
| XXVIII. | The National Defence | 563 |
| XXIX. | Foreign Relations | 587 |
| XXX. | The United States as a World Power | 606 |
| XXXI. | The United States and the League of Nations | 625 |
| XXXII. | Political and Social Reconstruction | 646 |
| APPENDIX | ||
| The Constitution of the United States | 665 | |
| INDEX | ||