siderable time can be prontaply spent, and the matter in much amplified. Here must be laid the basis of future st

Certain typical instruments deserve careful study. have made out understandingly an official bond, for ins to have gained greatly in intelligence.

It will be of great advantage to the class for the teach plete set of the papers whose forms are given in Appendi be obtained at almost any newspaper office, at a cost of a

A scrap-book or series of envelopes in which to file new ilustrative of the every-day workings of government, m useful. Pupils should be permitted and encouraged to co One good way to review is for the teacher to give ou veeks, a set of twenty-five or more questions, each o answered in a few words; have the pupils write their a correct answers being given by teacher or pupils, each ma paper. Each pupil may thus discover where he is strong

The questions given for debate may be discussed by the Or for morning exercises, one student may on a certain side of the argument, and on the following day the brought out by another student.

A student should not be required to submit his good na of answering a certain set of questions, however excellen tion, when from anxiety or other causes he may fall f himself justice. One good plan is to allow each student cent of his record during the progress of the work, by bri carefully prepared papers. One of these may be a resum taining to his local organization; another may be an a observed, or other governmental work which the studen performed; a third may be a synopsis of the presider fourth, a general tabulation of the constitution; the fifth, book on government, or a paper on a subject of the stud

Among reference books, every school should have at Statutes of the state and of the United States, the Legis the state, a good political almanac for the current year, Directory, and Alton's Among the Lawmakers.

A Teachers' Manual, giving answers to the pertinen tained herein, and many useful hints as to the details of is published in connection with this book.

swer.

At the very beginning of our study, ty naturally present themselves: First. Wha ment? Second. Why do we have such a th These questions are much easier to ask The wisest men of the ages have po them, and their answers have varied wide need not despair. Even boys and girls c moderately good answers, if they will a questions seriously and with a determinati near the root of the matter as possible.

Beginning without attempting an exact government, because we all have a notion o we notice that only certain animals are forming. Among these may be mentioned bee, and man. The fox, the bear, and the sent the other class. If we should make cluding in one all the animals of the first the other all those of the second class, we this discovery, that government-forming

X, we may put our generalizaMan establishes government a social being. This may be 1 reason.

Let us now proceed

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