Excerpt from History and Civil Government of Iowa: And the Government of the United States Our book has grown out of the conviction that his tory and civics are correlative studies that the story of civic development constitutes civil history; and that the civil government of to-day is most interesting and most profitable when viewed in the light of those events by which the organization of the State is being moulded and perfected. While we have given considerable space to the his tory of Iowa, we have confined ourselves strictly to civil history, and have tried, by numerous cross references, to emphasize the fact that present civic conditions are the result of past experiences and not infrequently of past prejudices. 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.