Civil government in the United States

Houghton, Mifflin, 1902

I	1

The ship of state	7

is	13

The townmeeting	19

24	26

The New England Township	29

The rate of taxation	32

The most ancient and simple form of government	35

1 Adviser of legislature	189

Vastness of the functions retained by the states in	195

Constitution of the state courts	198

Germs of the idea of a written constitution	204

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 1639	210

The several states were never at any time sovereign	220

Origin of the Federal Union	223

The Federal Convention 1787	226

The OldEnglish township the manor and the parish 39	39

Why do we have counties?	46

Ealdorman and sheriff shiremote and county court 52	52

Justices of the peace and trial justices	59

Formation of representative governments House	61

The county was the unit of representation	66

IV	74

Company of Massachusetts	78

Various Local Systems	85

Effects of the Ordinance of 1787	87

85888	99

THE CITY	105

Origin of English Boroughs and Cities	111

117	117

Government of the city of New York before the	124

led to scattering and weakening of responsibility 136	136

The Tweed Ring in New York	142

Representative government is necessitated in a county	149

The London and Plymouth Companies	159

159	161

Proprietary charter of Pennsylvania	167

Changes after the Revolution	172

Parlia	174

And the conflict between the British and American	176

can systems	182

Title	Civil government in the United States Volume 12 of The Miscellaneous Writings of John Fiske: With Many Portraits of Illustrious Philosophers, Scientists, and Other Men of Note, John Fiske
Author	John Fiske
Publisher	Houghton, Mifflin, 1902

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The back country the regulators	235

Impeachment in England in the United States	241

Circumstances favourable to the union of the colonies	252

Nominating conventions the primary the dis	253

The secretary of state	259

The Elastic Clause	266

Federal courts and judges	272

Concessions to the South	277

Origin of American political parties strict and loose	283

The Australian ballot	289

Their common charter	309

B The Constitution of the United States	321

Magna Charta	352

Policy of the early Massachusetts government as to land	365

55 56	366

ment	376

Part of the Bill of Rights 1689	379

F The States classified according to origin	391

Smallness of the farms	393

Albany Congress 1754 Stamp Act Congress	415

79	420

The Continental Congress 177489	424

Westward movement of population along parallels	427

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