nited States Circuit Courts of
Appeals; United States District Court; Court of Customs Appeals; Court
of Claims; Other Courts; Term of Service; Officers of Courts;
Suggestive Questions

CHAPTER XV.

GOVERNMENT.

Origin and Necessity; For the People; Kinds; Forms of Civil Government;
Monarchy; Aristocracy; Democracy; Suggestive Questions

CHAPTER XVI.

JUSTICE.

Rights and Duties; Relation of Rights and Duties; Civil Rights and
Duties; Industrial Rights and Duties; Social Rights and Duties; Moral
Rights and Duties; Political Rights and Duties; Suggestive Questions

CHAPTER XVII.

LAW AND LIBERTY.

Origin; Kinds of Law; Courts; Suits; Judges; Grand Jury; Trial Jury;
Origin of Juries; Officers of Courts; Legal Proceedings; Suggestive
Questions

CHAPTER XVIII.

SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS.

Suffrage; Importance; Elections; Methods of Voting; Officers of
Elections; Bribery; Suggestive Questions

CHAPTER XIX.

THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT SYSTEM,

Origin; In the United States; Principles; Requirements; Voting;
Advantages; Forms of Ballots; In Louisville; In Massachusetts; In
Indiana; Suggestive Questions

CHAPTER XX.

PARTIES AND PARTY MACHINERY.

Origin; Necessity; Party Machinery; Committees; Conventions; Calling
Conventions; Local and State Conventions; National Convention;
Platform; Nominations; Primary Elections; Caucuses; Suggestive Questions

CHAPTER XXI.

LEGISLATION.

Bills; Introduction; Committees; Reports; Amendments; Passage;
Suggestive Questions

CHAPTER XXII.

REVENUE AND TAXATION.

Revenue; Taxation; Necessity of Taxation; Direct Taxes; Indirect Taxes;
Customs or Duties; Internal Revenue; Suggestive Questions

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

INDEX

ELEMENTS OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT

PART I.

CHAPTER I.

THE FAMILY.

INTRODUCTORY.[1]--People living in the United States owe respect and
obedience to not less than four different governments; that is, to four
forms of organized authority. They have duties, as citizens of a
township or civil district, as citizens of a county, as citizens of
some one of the States, and as citizens of the United States. All
persons are, or have been, members of a family; some also live under a
village or city government; and most children are subject to the
government, of some school. Many people in this country live under six
governments--namely, the family, the township or civil district, the
village or city, the coun