The Government Class Book Part 42

--7. What are the duties of the adjutant-general?

--8. What is the business of a commissary-general? Is there one in this state? Define _a.r.s.enal_.

--9. What is done in the case of persons averse to bearing arms? Are any exempt in this state without commuting?

--10. What regulations exist in New York and Ohio?

--11. For what reasons is the drilling of the whole militia deemed unnecessary?

--12. What is your opinion of war? What is a better way of settling disputes between nations?

Chapter XXVI.

--2. What is there in our government that renders a knowledge of it important to the people?

--3. To what country were the American colonies subject? What is a _colony_?

--4. Whence did the people derive their rights and privileges? What was the _form_ of the colonial governments?

--5. From whom did the officers derive their power? Were any elected? On whose approval did the laws finally depend?

--6. What was the effect of this upon the colonists? What was the object of the laws of parliament relating to the colonies?

--6, 7. What did some of these laws require?

--8. By what particular means did that government secure the colonial trade? Define _duty_.

--9. Explain the nature and effect of these duties.

--10. What right did parliament claim? What act was accordingly pa.s.sed?

What did the colonists do? What was the final result?

Chapter XXVII.

--1. When did the first continental congress meet? How were its members chosen? What great act did it do in 1776?

--2. What did it in November, 1777? When did the confederation go into effect?

--3. How did the union formed by it prove? What was the probable cause of its imperfections?

--4. What was its leading defect? Mention some instances of its weakness?

--5. What probably aided in inducng compliance with the ordinances of congress?

--6. What new difficulties arose after peace? What difficulty attended the laying of duties by the states?

--7. For what other purpose did congress need the power to lay duties?

How had Great Britain secured the carrying trade?

--8. What other trouble arose from this imperfect union?

--9. How was this difficulty sought to be remedied?

--10. What was the result of the meeting at Annapolis?

--11. In what did the recommending of a convention result? How was the const.i.tution ratified in the states?

--12. To give it effect, how many states must ratify? When were ratifications received from Rhode Island and North Carolina?

Chapter XXVIII.

--2. What is a confederacy? Was the confederation a union of people? or a union of states? From what does this appear?

--3. What is the union under the const.i.tution? Where is this declared?

--4. What is said of the former independence of the states? What power has the general government acquired by the const.i.tution?

--5. How did the equality of the states in the old congress appear? To how many delegates were they ent.i.tled? How did they vote?

--6. How are the states now represented? How do representatives vote?

--7. State the difference between the bodies that framed and ratified the two instruments respectively.

--8. Was the government under the confederation properly _national_? How does it appear that it was not? What change did the const.i.tution effect?

--9. What early act of the const.i.tutional convention shows the present government to be national?

--10. What departments of power were wanting under the confederation?

--11. Is the present government wholly national? Why not?

Chapter XXIX.

--1. Of what does congress consist? For what terms were members of the old congress appointed? Why has the term of a representative been extended to two years?

--2. What qualifications are required for voting for representatives?

What reasons were there for this rule?