--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?