United States Government Publications, a Handbook for the Cataloger, Vol. 1

Excerpt from United States Government Publications, a Handbook for the Cataloger, Vol. 1: The Government at Large; The Constitution, Statutes, Treaties The study of government documents, or government publi cations, or official literature, is the study of the mechanism of modern government as expressed in its publications; and modern government, classified organically, is either federal, state, or municipal. Each of the forms of administrative organization, in addition to the authority of the organized government as a corporate body, exercises a similar series of functions, viz.: the exercise of the legislative power of the government, the exercise of the executive power, and the exercise of the judicial power. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.