Community and Government (Volume 4, No. 5); A Manual of Discussion and Study of the Newer Ideals of Citizenship - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921. Excerpt: ... its increasing possibilities for directing and rendering social service to its citizens through co-operation with the units of local government. What are the fundamental divisions of the national service? How do they function? Do they function adequately through well-organized departments and divisions? Are there enough departments to meet the needs of the government today with its growing visions of social and economic service? Do the political parties, in the attempt to build great constructive platforms, recognize the importance of the national departments and the careful selection of cabinet members? Will they select candidates who will select members of the cabinet for their special fitness to interpret and render the due services to the nation rather than for their political influence alone! The great political conventions, potent with the capacity to become American institutions of unlimited creative force, are but the representatives of the people--the citizens. Do, then, the citizens control these conventions, guaranteeing that they will express the will and choice of the people in their selections? It is not enough to affirm that the people may reject the candidates of the convention choice if such candidate is not of their liking; the people must vote for their nominees. Shall not one of the new ideals of American citizenship be, therefore, the magnifying, by the conventions, of service to the people through the entire governmental organization? 125. National service. Most of the larger problems of national and international affairs--those that affect us today with such power for good or evil--must be directed through the channels of departments of national government. War, adjustment of capital and labor, taxation, immigration, ideals of justi...

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