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The Federalists : a study in administrative history

Leonard Dupee White (Author)
First volume in a trilogy, of which the second is "The Jeffersonians", and the third is "The Jacksonians."
Print Book, English, 1948
Macmillan Company, New York, 1948
xii, 538 pages ; 22 cm
1830658
The Course of Government, 1789-1801
"An Efficient and Responsible Executive"
Washington and His Assistants
The Duty to Consult
The Executive Impulse
Congress Resists
Congress Reaches Out
Federalist and Republican Theories of the Executive Power
George Washington as an Administrator
The Treasury
The Department of State
War: "A Difficult and Unpopular Department"
The Navy Department
The Attorney General: "A Sort of Mongrel"
The General Post Office
Trouble on the Post Road
Internal Departmental Control
Interdepartmental Relations
The Hamilton-Jefferson Feud
The Hamilton-Adams Conflict
"Fitness of Character": Public Service Ideals
Ideals and Practice
The Rule of Parsimony
Some Civil Servants
Notes on Prestige
Appropriations: Executive Freedom or Legislative Restraint
Getting and Spending
Debts and Claims
The Purveyor of the United States
Government in the Wilderness
Federal-State Administrative Relations
The Law Enforcement Machinery
The Statutory Law of Officers
Administrative Powers and Sanctions
Administrative Discretion
The Problem of Smuggling
The State of the Administrative Art
The Problem of Communications
Administrative Housekeeping
The Administrative Theory and Achievements of the Federalists