Chapter x.x.xVII.
--1. What is the first prohibition on congress?
--2. To what has this reference? For what reasons was this prohibition a.s.sented to?
--3. Have men a natural right to buy and sell each other? When was the foreign slave trade prohibited? How is it now punishable?
--4. Define _habeas corpus_. What is the privilege of this writ?
--5. What is a bill of attainder? When is it a bill of pains and penalties?
--6. What is an _ex post facto_ law? Give examples of ex post facto laws.
--7. What is a capitation tax? To what provision of the const.i.tution does this prohibition refer? What does it mean?
--8. Why are duties on exports forbidden? How might the interests of the different states be injuriously affected by taxing exports?
--9. What further reasons are given for this prohibition? How is freedom and equality in trade secured to the states?
--10. By what provision is the proper disposal of the public moneys secured?
--11. Why is the granting of t.i.tles of n.o.bility forbidden? How are public officers guarded against corruption from foreign influence?
Chapter x.x.xVIII.
--1. What is a treaty? An alliance? A confederation? Why are states forbidden to enter into them?
--2. Why should not states issue letters of marque and reprisal?
--3. Why should they not coin money?
--4. Why were they forbidden to emit bills of credit? Does the prohibition extend to bank bills?
--5. What is meant by _tender_, usually termed _lawful_ or _legal tender_? Why should coin only be made tender in payment of debts?
--6. Why is the pa.s.sing of bills of attainder and ex post facto laws by states forbidden? Why are laws impairing the force of contracts prohibited?
--7. Do insolvent or bankrupt laws impair the obligation of contracts?
States have pa.s.sed such laws; were they const.i.tutional? How has the question been decided?
--8. Why is the granting of t.i.tles forbidden to the states?
--9. What objections to the general power of the states to tax exports or imports? What exception is made to the prohibition?
--10. What is the object of this exception?
--11. What other restrictions are there upon the power of the states?
Chapter x.x.xIX.
--1. In whom is the executive power of the nation vested?
--2. For what reasons was this power given to one person only?
--3. Why were four years agreed on as the official term?
--4. By whom is the president elected? Has the mode of election ever been altered?
--5. By what authority is the manner of choosing the electors prescribed?
By whom are they chosen at present?
--6. In what manner are they chosen? Describe particularly the election by general ticket. When are electors chosen?
--7. Where and when do the electors vote for president? How, when, and to whom, are certificates of their votes sent?
--8. When, where, and by whom are the votes counted? How is the election determined? If no person has a majority of all the votes, by whom is the election made? How do the members vote?
--9. Describe the election of president by the house in 1825.
--10. How is the vice-president elected if there is no choice by the electors?
--11. What are the qualifications of the president and vice-president?
--12. How is a vacancy in the office of president supplied? What further provision is made for supplying vacancies?
--13. Why may not the salary of a president be increased or diminished?
--14. When does the presidential term commence and expire?
Chapter XL.
--1. What high military office has the president? Why is the command of the public forces intrusted to him?
--2. For what reasons the power to grant reprieves and pardons?
--3. What other powers has the president? For what purposes are treaties made? Who exercises this power in monarchies? Why is not the house a.s.sociated with the president and senate?
--4. For what reasons is the senate preferred? Who appoint emba.s.sadors?