READINGS IN CIVIL GOVERNMENT

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Copyright, 1910, by
THE CENTURY Co.

Published, September, 1910

READINGS IN CIVIL GOVERNMENT

CONTENTS AND LIST OF CITATIONS

PART I

THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER I

THE PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL

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1. Definitions: State, Government, Nation

Leacock, Stephen, Elements of Political Science, 12 sq.,

52 sq.

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2. Constitutional Government

Wilson, Woodrow, Constitutional Government in the United

States, 1 sq.

3. The Meaning of Self-Government

Abbott, Lyman, The Outlook, LXII, 147 sq., 196 sq. (1899).

4. How the Capacity for Self-Government is Acquired .

Same as above, No. 2, 51 sq.

5. The Origin of Representative Government

Commons, J. R., Proportional Representation, 11 sq.

6. The People vs. The Representative .

Bryan, W. J., Hughes, Charles E., Hart, M. K., The Outlook,

LXXXVII, 730 sq. (1907).

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CHAPTER II

FORMATION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION

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7. The Articles of Confederation

8. Defects in the Articles of Confederation

(a) Amendments Proposed in 1781, Bancroft, History of

the Constitution, I, 287.

(b) The Five Per Cent Scheme, Elliot's Debates, I. 93.

(c) Rhode Island's Objections to the Five Per Cent

Scheme, Ibid., 100.

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