Part 42 (1/2)

--7. What are the duties of the adjutant-general?

--8. What is the business of a commissary-general? Is there one in this state? Define _a.r.s.enal_.

--9. What is done in the case of persons averse to bearing arms? Are any exempt in this state without commuting?

--10. What regulations exist in New York and Ohio?

--11. For what reasons is the drilling of the whole militia deemed unnecessary?

--12. What is your opinion of war? What is a better way of settling disputes between nations?

Chapter XXVI.

--2. What is there in our government that renders a knowledge of it important to the people?

--3. To what country were the American colonies subject? What is a _colony_?

--4. Whence did the people derive their rights and privileges? What was the _form_ of the colonial governments?

--5. From whom did the officers derive their power? Were any elected? On whose approval did the laws finally depend?

--6. What was the effect of this upon the colonists? What was the object of the laws of parliament relating to the colonies?

--6, 7. What did some of these laws require?

--8. By what particular means did that government secure the colonial trade? Define _duty_.

--9. Explain the nature and effect of these duties.

--10. What right did parliament claim? What act was accordingly pa.s.sed?

What did the colonists do? What was the final result?

Chapter XXVII.

--1. When did the first continental congress meet? How were its members chosen? What great act did it do in 1776?

--2. What did it in November, 1777? When did the confederation go into effect?

--3. How did the union formed by it prove? What was the probable cause of its imperfections?

--4. What was its leading defect? Mention some instances of its weakness?

--5. What probably aided in inducng compliance with the ordinances of congress?

--6. What new difficulties arose after peace? What difficulty attended the laying of duties by the states?