First Lessons in Civics: A Text-book for Use in SchoolsAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 192 páginas |
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allowed to vote amendment appointed Articles of Confederation Assessors ballot bill body called candidate charter Circuit Court citizens citizenship City Council Clerk colony Committee compelled Congress Constitution Convention county seat crime declared delegates discussion District Court elected electors England England town ernment executive foreign give Governor granted guilty habeas corpus House of Representatives judge judicial department jury justice lature lawmaking Legislature LESSON Lieutenant Governor live marriage ment Millville national courts national government number of votes obey ORIGINAL THOUGHT parents passed peace person political parties poll tax powers and duties powers of government punishment pupils QUESTIONS FOR ORIGINAL Rhode Island right to vote rule Senate Sergeant-at-Arms sheriff sometimes Supreme Court taxation teacher things thirteen colonies tion town government town meeting township trial tried Union United Vice President village voters wish word
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Página 179 - A political party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. Party
Página 114 - have the means of knowing what their will is, and upon all others I shall do what my own judgment teaches me will best advance their interests.
Página 148 - What is the salary of a representative? Of a senator? How are these salaries paid? 2. What are the names of the senators who represent your State in Congress ? 3. How many representatives does your State send to Congress? In what Congressional District do you live ? What is the name of your representative?
Página 44 - A farmer shot and seriously injured a boy who was in his tree stealing chestnuts. Could the farmer have been punished for this act? 2. Is there full enjoyment of all civil rights in your community? 3. In what way may the newspapers abuse the "freedom of the press " ? 4. What is meant by "religious liberty"?
Página 132 - JUDGES, JURIES, AND COURTS OF LAW "No man's property is safe, and no man's welfare is assured where justice is denied to the poor, or where crime goes unpunished ; no State can prosper where human rights are not respected.
Página 130 - is the law officer of the State, corresponding to the prosecuting attorney of the county. When the State needs the services of a lawyer, he appears for it in the courts. When any executive officer of the State needs legal advice, the AttorneyGeneral is called upon for an opinion. (6) The
Página 114 - When and where the State Legislature Meets. — Each State has its capital, or the city in which the business of the State government is transacted. If you have ever been in the capital of your State, you have doubtless visited the capital, or Statehouse. This is usually a
Página 99 - water away from your house ; if in your old age you shall be infirm and poor, the Council will care for you in its asylums ; at last, when you shall die, it will grant a permit for your burial, and the fact of your death will have to be registered in its book of deaths.
Página 40 - being an American citizen. Would it be right to require that aliens, before they are naturalized, should read the Constitution that they swear to support ? LESSON VIII CITIZENSHIP (Continued) CIVIL RIGHTS "What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is folly, vice, and madness.
Página 84 - it. When necessary, the sheriff may call to his aid deputies or helpers. In times of great danger or disturbance, the sheriff may call to his aid the posse comitatus, that is, every able-bodied man in the county. The sheriff lives at the county seat and has charge of the county jail and