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A comprehensive civics textbook surveys American governmental structures and municipal administration while integrating related topics in economics, sociology, and international relations. It links public problems to governmental policy, explains institutions and functions at national and local levels, and presents classroom methods for teaching civic principles. The text provides diagrams and illustrative art alongside discussion questions, group projects, debate topics, and bibliographies to assist teachers and students. Emphasis rests on practical problem-solving, civic responsibilities, and reconciling individual liberty with legal order, with major issues treated in detail and minor matters delegated to notes and references for further study.

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Title: Social Civics

Author: William Bennett Munro

Charles Eugene Ozanne

Release date: February 10, 2024 [eBook #72924]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: The MacMillan Company, 1922

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SOCIAL CIVICS

Books by William Bennett Munro
The Government of the United States
The Government of American Cities
The Government of European Cities
Principles and Methods of Municipal Administration
JUSTICE
By Edward Simmons

This frontispiece is a reproduction of a famous mural decoration in the New York Criminal Court House.

The background is the doorway of the criminal court room. Justice stands before the entrance holding in one hand the conventional scales as a token of impartiality, and in the other hand a globe to symbolize the world. Over her left shoulder is draped the national flag. Condemnation and Acquittal are typified by the two children, one of whom holds a sword, the other the dove of peace.

It has been usual to prefigure the Goddess of Justice with her eyes bandaged, in token of her immunity from outside influence. Mr. Simmons, however, has here portrayed Justice with her eyes uncovered, because he believed that “Justice should have her eyes wide open—particularly in New York City”.

The artist’s wife and two children were the models for this painting.

JUSTICE. By Edward Simmons

Copyright by Edward Simmons. From a Copley Print,
copyright by Curtis & Cameron, Boston.
Reproduced by permission.

SOCIAL CIVICS
BY
WILLIAM BENNETT MUNRO
PROFESSOR OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
AND
CHARLES EUGENE OZANNE
TEACHER OF CIVICS
IN THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, CLEVELAND, OHIO
NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1922
All rights reserved
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Copyright, 1922
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published June, 1922