<span>In his clearly titled Water and American Government Donald J. Pisani continues his planned multivolume analysis of water law, water policy, and American governmental institutions.[1]
This second volume offers a narrative history of the Reclamation Service from its creation by the Reclamation Act of 1902 through its monumental, crowning achievement in the first third of the twentieth century, Boulder Dam on the Colorado River.</span>
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
Thomas Jefferson said “—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness… it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
