Rantoul; Democratic Review; Harris's Political Conflict; Buchanan's Administration; A. H. Stephens' War Between the States; Centz's Republic of Republics. LOOSE, OR BROAD, CONSTRUCTION.-Hamilton's Works; John Adams's Works; Webster's Works; Clay's Speeches; Story's Commentaries; Whig Review; Ormsby's Whig Party; Seward's Works; Sumner's Works; Creswell's Speeches of Henry Winter Davis; Mulford's The Nation; Andrews's Handbook of the Constitution; Farrar's Manual; Tiffany's Constitutional Law; Hurd's Theory of the United States Government. MISCELLANEOUS.-Tribune Almanac (1838-81); Cluskey's Political Text-book; Greeley's Political Text-book of 1860; Congressional Reports (particularly those on Kansas, Harper's Ferry, Covode Investigation, Impeachment of President Johnson, Reconstruction, Ku-Klux Conspiracy, Credit Mobilier, Louisiana); Poore's Federal and State Constitution; Appendix D is to be credited to Spofford's American Almanac; Appendix H has been furnished by the various Departments. CONTENTS. PREFACE AND AUTHORITIES, INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER I. Origin of Political Parties in the United States. Formation Federal Party, 3 CHAPTER II. Settlement of the FIRST ADMINISTRATION, 1789-1793. government, and rise of the Republican Party, . 18 CHAPTER III. SECOND ADMINISTRATION, 1793-1797. The political con- CHAPTER IV. THIRD ADMINISTRATION, 1797-1801. Continued success Defeat 41 of the Federalists. The disputed election of 1800, CHAPTER V. FOURTH ADMINISTRATION, 1801-1805. The Republican 53 EIGHTH ADMINISTRATION, 1817-1821. Disappearance of the Federal Party. Appearance of loose construction- FOURTEENTH ADMINISTRATION, 1841-1845. The Whig Party in power. Its disagreement with President FIFTEENTH ADMINISTRATION, 1845-1849. The Democratic Party in power. War with Mexico. The Slavery Question revived as to territory acquired from Mexico. The Wilmot Proviso. The Formation of the Free SIXTEENTH ADMINISTRATION, 1849-1853. The Whig Party in power. Adoption of Squatter Sovereignty SEVENTEENTH ADMINISTRATION, 1853-1857. The Demo- cratic Party in power. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill, and the Repeal of the Compromise of 1820. Divi- NINETEENTH ADMINISTRATION, 1861-1865. The Repub- lican Party in Power. Civil War. Loose Construc- TWENTIETH ADMINISTRATION, 1865-1869. Return of the seceding States to the Union. Reconstruction. Dis- agreement between Congress and the President. The TWENTY-FIRST ADMINISTRATION, 1869-1873. Reconstruc- tion by Congress accomplished, and the results of the War finally accepted by the Democratic Party. The TWENTY-SECOND ADMINISTRATION, 1873-1877. Disturb- TWENTY-THIRD ADMINISTRATION, 1877-1881. Questions of |