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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by
MEEDS TUTHILL,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
MEM AOBK
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.-Origin and Growth of the United States.
CHAPTER II.-Sketch of Civil Polity in General.
I.-The Power to Design, as General Ground. .
II. Relation of State to Citizens, as Ground of Reci-
procal Development.....
III. The Religious Ground;-Faith in Truth and in
Persons...
IV.-Greek and Roman States.-Deficient Views of Law
and Lawmakers...
CHAPTER III.—Distribution of Powers in the Nation....
CHAPTER IV.-The Two Parties, and their Use of Power......
What Written Constitutions Signify in General.—
The U. S. Constitution.-Necessity of Two Parties
for General Judgment.-Their Use of the Con-
stitution and of the Powers it Distributes....
CHAPTER V.-Methods of Government...
Legislative: Executive: Judicial:—each a trinity of
Powers; the three a moral Self-government.—
Relation of the Two Parties in each Sphere.....
CHAPTER VI.-Methods of Civil Service.
I-Suffrage designed as Choice of Persons.-The
Electoral College, etc.
II.—Qualifications for the Yutiago
Citizens and Foreigners.
and other Officials.
Woman-
n-Suffrage.
Election Laws-Difference of Parties in Use of
the Suffrage. Effect of the Party-system upon
Suffrage and Office-holding in General: requires an
organized choice of either men or measures.-Abuse
of Party-methods by one party and neglect by the
other.