CVI REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY 



with executive districts, and there are national courts, state 

 courts, county courts, and municipal courts. Again, judicative 

 functions are differentiated, as criminal and civil, and special 

 courts are organized therefor, while other courts are organized, 

 as railroad commissions, warehouse commissions, etc. 



A third system of regimentation is used for legislative pur- 

 poses, and in this system the districts correspond only in small 

 part with those established for executive and judicative pur- 

 poses. 



A fourth system of regimentation is established for opera- 

 tive purposes. The General Government carries on works, 

 states carry on works, counties carry on works, and cities and 

 towns carry on works. 



Still a fifth system of regimentation is found, namely, tliat 

 for school purposes. 



By the district system thus briefly and imperfectly elabor- 

 ated the people are organized or regimented into bodies, and 

 special functions are relegated to tlie several units. These 

 functions are constitutive, legislative, executive, operative, and 

 judicative. It is by constitutive action that regimentation is 

 accomplished; and it is by regimentation that specialization 

 is accomplished. This specialization is canned on to such an 

 extent in the United States that much of the government is 

 local self-government. Every school district has special func- 

 tions, every township special functions, every county special 

 functions, every state special functions, and every municipality 

 special functions; while general functions are exercised over 

 all by the Federal Government. Thus, the people of the 

 United States are constituted and regimented into a congeries 

 of hierarchies of units all woven into one complex system as 

 the Government of the United States, and so adjusted in inter- 

 dependent parts as to secure a high degree orspecialization. 



In addition to the governmental regimentation, there is a vast 

 congeries of societies or corporations organized for religious, 

 industrial, educational, and other purposes, all of which con- 

 stitute part of the state or nation. 



The regimentation of all people is fo^^nded on natural fami- 

 lies, for there are husbands and wives, parents and children; 



