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Manual of the Constitution of the United States : designed for the instruction of American youth in the duties, obligations, and rights of citizenship

Print Book, English, ©1874
Wilson, Hinkle & Co., Cincinnati, ©1874
Textbooks U.S. Constitution 1875/75-1886/87
370, xxxviii pages ; 21 cm
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1. Civil government : Its object, origin, and nature ; Different forms of government ; Peculiarity of that of the United States ; Not a consolidated republic, nor a league of states
2. The colonial governments : Royal, proprietary, and charter ; The causes of the revolution ; The continental congress ; The Declaration of Independence
3. The Articles of Confederation : Their failure ; The convention to form a constitution
4. The Constitution of the United States
5. The ratification of the constitution by the several states
6. The admission of new states : The territorial governments
7. Practical operation of the constitution
8. The state governments