What
different
views are now held in regard to the ac-
quisition and government of territories?
quisition and government of territories?
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe
23. To what extent, if any, are the State Governments re-
sponsible for the enforcement of prohibition?
24. Does public sentiment favor the return of the liquor
saloon? Explain.
25. How has the Federal Government controlled the manu-
facture, sale, and use of narcotics in the United States?
26. How extensive is the drug habit in the United States?
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Questions and Problems for Further Study and
Discussion
1. Are there outstanding social factors affecting public
health? Explain.
2. Of what value are vital statistics in carrying out an
effective health program? How are these statistics kept in your
home community?
3. What are some important factors affecting infant mor-
tality rates? What is an ideal mortality rate?
4. Other than vital statistics, what sources of information
do we have regarding health conditions in the United States?
5. Has the Federal Children's Bureau made any contribu-
tions to our knowledge of health conditions?
6. What are the shortcomings of municipal public health
work in the United States?
7. Are there special hazards to health in the rural areas?
8. Of what value are epidemics in public health education?
9. Outline the public health organization and its activities
in your State.
10. Point out the objectives of the Public Health Service in
the United States.
11. Should medical attendance, when needed, be provided at
public expense for everybody or only for those who are unable
to pay for it?
12. What are some laws passed by your State regulating
working conditions and hours of labor? Are others needed?
Explain.
13. Who should bear the burden of compensating injuries suf-
fered while under employment?
14. What are some steps that have been taken to safeguard
the persons and health of those employed in large industrial
establishments?
15. What is morality? What, in general, has been the direction
of moral progress?
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16. Point out the dangers of conventional morality?
17. What sort of conduct may be considered good? Are
people generally agreed on this point?
18. Discuss the evils of undue self-indulgence. Of undue self-
repression.
19. Do moral acts always bring happiness somewhere?
20. Is it wrong to smoke? Is smoking justifiable for men but
not for women? Discuss.
21. What should be one's attitude toward alcoholic liquors?
22. What general duties does one owe his fellow-man?
References
Munro's The Government of the United States, Third Edition, pp. 601,
720-721.
Mathews and Berdahl's Documents and Readings in American Govern-
ment, pp. 856-865.
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(pp. 360-382)
NATURAL RESOURCES
1. What is the present status of the natural resources of the
United States? How seriously are the American people con-
cerned about this?
2. Is there a need for government control of petroleum and
natural gas deposits? Discuss.
3. Have the people of the United States been wasteful in
dealing with our coal deposits? Explain.
4. What other natural resources have suffered abuse and
waste in the United States?
5. Is it the business of the Federal Government to prescribe
the conditions under which coal, oil, timber, and other resources
may be utilized in the United States? Discuss.
6. What has been the policy of the Federal Government in
the disposal of its public lands? Point out the evils attending
this policy.
7. Has the Federal Government become interested in the
establishment of national parks? What other steps have been
taken within recent years to conserve our public lands?
8. Of what value are the timber resources of the United
States? May private initiative be depended upon for the con-
servation of our forests?
9. Where are the timber lands of the United States located?
10. What agencies has the Federal Government provided for
the conservation of forests and the reforestation of cut-over
lands?
11. Are there strong reasons for conserving our wild animal
resources? Discuss.
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12. What has the National Government done to preserve
wild life in America?
13. Outline the policy followed by the Federal Government
in the development and control of water power in the United
States.
14. What are the functions of the Federal Power Commis-
sion?
15. What special interest do private utility corporations have
in the development of water power in the United States?
16. Of what significance are the Indian reservations of the
United States?
17. What has been the controlling policy of the government
in dealing with the Indians?
18. Which government in our federal system has jurisdiction
over the Indian reservations?
19. Are the Indians American citizens? Explain.
20. Point out some governmental problems in the education
of the Indians.
Questions and Problems for Further Study and
Discussion
1. How is the United States to care for its people when its
population reaches three-hundred million?
2. Why do we need a national policy of conservation?
3. How are the national forests protected from fire?
4. Is there a real need for government conservation of the
mineral resources? Give reasons.
5. What is meant by reclamation?
6. What is the value of irrigation to the Western farmer?
How great is the need for irrigation?
7. Show the connection between forest conservation and
water conservation.
8. Is the conservation of animal life important? Explain.
9. Should the government adopt a policy of withdrawing
lands of low productivity from use as a means of conservation?
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Would such a policy aid in the solution of the present problem
of agriculture?
10. With an outline map of the United States and crayons
show the location of the great natural resources of this country.
References
Beard's Readings in American Government and Politics, New and Re-
vised Edition, Chap. XX.
Young's The New American Government and Its Work (1023), Chap.
XIV.
Pinchot's "The Conservation of Natural Resources" in the Outlook,
Vol. 87, pp. 291-294.
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(PP- 383-396)
TERRITORIES AND EMPIRE
1. Did the Constitutional Fathers contemplate a Union of
equal States? What is meant by a "Union of equal States"?
2.
What different views are now held in regard to the ac-
quisition and government of territories?
3. Explain the expression "the white man's burden. "
4. Under what authority has the United States acquired
additional territory?
5. Do the various provisions of the Federal Constitution
apply to the people of the territories the same as to the residents
of the United States proper? Explain.
6. What significance may be attached to the decision of the
Supreme Court in the "Insular Cases"?
7. In what different ways has the United States acquired
additional territory? Illustrate each.
8. How are the following territories governed?
a. District of Columbia e. Porto Rico
b. Alaska /. Virgin Islands
c. Hawaii g. Panama Canal Zone
d. Philippine Islands h. Guam and Samoa
9. Does the United States have a central Colonial Office for
the government of its territories? What are the advantages of
a central Colonial Office?
10. What is a protectorate? How does it differ from a man-
date?
11. List the protectorates of the United States. Under what
circumstances were each of these protectorates established?
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12. Has Congress acquired the territories of the United States
under a definite policy of colonial expansion?
13. What may be said concerning the future of American
colonial possessions?
14. Do the American colonial possessions tend to bolster-up
national defense? Explain.
15. What is the relation of the tariff to American colonial
policy?
16. Are the people of all the territorial possessions, citizens
of the United States? Discuss.
17. Is there a growing tendency for the American people to
become imperialistic? Explain.
18. Of what significance is the Monroe Doctrine in American
foreign policy?
Questions and Problems for Further Study and
Discussion
1. What are the motives prompting colonial expansion?
2. Outline briefly the colonial policy of the United States.
3. May non-contiguous territory be organized and admitted
to Statehood?
4. What degree of local self-government has been granted
to our insular possessions?
5. Should the Filipinos be granted their independence? De-
bate.
6. Does free trade exist between the United States and her
insular possessions? What are your views on this question?
7. Do the inhabitants of the territories participate in the
election of the President?
8. Are the inhabitants of our insular possessions, who are
natural-born citizens of the United States, eligible to the presi-
dency?
9. How does the United States protect her possessions against
foreign aggression?
10. Do the inhabitants of the territories enjoy the same rights,
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privileges, and immunities under the Constitution that are en-
joyed by the citizens of the United States proper?
n. What important principles were laid down by the Supreme
Court in the "Insular Cases"?
12. How does the colonial policy of the United States com-
pare with that of England; France; Japan; Italy; Holland; and
Portugal?
13. List the territorial possessions now held by the United
States. Give the date of acquisition, the cost, the area in square
miles, and the present population of each.
14. Do the major parties in the United States differ in their
attitudes in regard to the government and control of our terri-
tories? With which of the two do your own views more nearly
correspond? Give reasons.
References
Beard's Readings in American Government and Politics, New and Re-
vised Edition, Chap. XXI.
Munro's The Government of the United States, Third Edition, Chap.
XXVI.
Ogg and Ray's Introduction to American Government, Fourth Edition,
Chap. XXIX.
Mathews and Berdahl's Documents and Readings in American Govern-
ment (1928), pp. 528-545-
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(PP- 397-429)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
1. How is a nation's destiny related to the manner in which
it conducts its foreign affairs?
2. Who is responsible for the general direction of foreign
affairs in the United States?
3. What part, if any, does Congress play in the conduct of
foreign affairs?
4. Through what channels are negotiations with foreign
countries carried on?
5. Point out the function of the Department of State? How
is this department organized?
6. What diplomatic representatives and consular agents
does the United States send to foreign governments?
7. How are diplomatic agents and consuls selected? In
what manner may their posts be terminated?
8. Outline the duties of a diplomatic agent. Of a consular
agent.
9. Describe the changes that have taken place in the develop-
ment of the personnel for foreign service. Is the present plan
immune of criticism? Explain.
10. Who exercises the treaty-making power in the United
States?
ix. What rules did Jefferson lay down for the making of
treaties? To what extent are these rules followed today?
12. Are these limitations on the powers of the United States
Government? Explain.
13. Outline the steps in the process of negotiating treaties in
the United States.
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14. Is it diplomatic for the President to assure himself of
senatorial approval before he commits himself on important
treaties?
15. After a treaty has been made, how may it be broken?
16. What is "secret diplomacy"? To what extent is this
practice followed in the United States?
17. What has been the policy of the United States in regard
to foreign alliances?
18. Is it possible or practical for the United States to main-
tain a policy of isolation?
19. Explain the provisions of the Monroe Doctrine. Under
what circumstances was this policy adopted?
20. What attitude have Latin-American statesmen taken
toward the Monroe Doctrine?
21. How has the United States looked upon the establishment
of spheres of influence by foreign powers in backward countries?
22. What phase of American foreign policy is incorporated
in the Kellogg Pact of 1928?
23. Describe the organization of the League of Nations.
24. What are some of the outstanding obligations of members
of the League of Nations?
25. Characterize the relation of the United States to the
League of Nations.
26. Of what significance is the Pan-American Union?
27. Describe the organization of the World Court.
28. What are some other international agencies that perform
functions of World-wide interest?
Questions and Problems for Further Study and
Discussion
1. May the Federal Government intervene in the adminis-
tration of the criminal law of a State where the treaty rights of
foreigners residing in the United States are involved?
2. Should the United States abandon the Monroe Doctrine?
Explain.
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3. Should the United States join the League of Nations?
