By FRANK J. GOODNOW Comparative An Analysis of the Administrative Systems, National and Local, of the United States, England, France, and Germany The Principles of the Adminis trative Law of the United States OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW OF THE UNITED STATES BY FRANK J. GOODNOW, LL.D. EATON PROFESSOR OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND MUNICIPAL SCIENCE IN G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 45550 LIBRARY OF THE LELAND STANFORD, JR., UNIVERSITY LAW DEPARTMENT. COPYRIGHT, 1905 BY FRANK J. GOODNOW The Knickerbocker Press, New York PREFACE. SOME twelve years ago, the writer of the following pages ventured to submit to those interested in the study of political subjects a book entitled Comparative Administrative Law. The great interest in administrative subjects, which is now so manifest in this country, has led him since to believe that a fuller treatment of American administrative conditions than was possible in a book devoted to a comparison of different administrative systems was desirable. This has been his excuse for preparing this work. The plan adopted in his Comparative Administrative Law is the one which is here followed. In a number of instances, further, the language which was used in the former work has been retained. In the main, however, the portions of Comparative Administrative Law dealing with American conditions have been greatly amplified, if not absolutely rewritten. In a number of instances, where the plan adopted has involved a rather technical presentation of the subject, the author has deemed it wise to state the law in the words of text-writers of acknowledged authority. He has thus been greatly indebted in this, as in the former work, to Professor Floyd R. Mechem, whose excellent treatise on The Law of Public Officers has been of the greatest use. It is the hope of the author that the book now presented to students of politics will soon be followed by one consisting of cases illustrative of American administrative law, to be arranged in the same order as the one here adopted. Such a case book he feels would be of the greatest service in illustrating the conditions which are encountered by administrative officers, and thus bringing in concrete shape before the student's eyes the problems which he is studying. FRANK J. GOODnow. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, |