lawyers officers of the court? What oath does each take on admission
to the bar?

_Questions for Debate_

Resolved, That trial by jury has outlived its usefulness.

Resolved, That capital punishment is not justifiable.

_References_.--Dole's Talks about Law; Lieber's Civil Liberty and Self
Government, 234-6; The Century, November 1882; Atlantic Monthly, July 1881;
North American Review, March 1882 and July 1884.

[Illustration: Papers--Prepare with care the "tabular views" of the town,
village, city and county, as follows]

CHAPTER VIII.

HISTORICAL.

Old England.--Not only our language but also very many of our political
institutions we have inherited from England. But the country now called by
that name is not the real _old_ England. The fatherland of the English
race is the isthmus in the northern part of Germany which we now call
Schleswig. Here dwelt the old Angles or English. To the north of them in
Jutland was the tribe called the Jutes, and to the south of them, in what
we now call Holstein and Friesland, dwelt the Saxons. "How close was the
union of these tribes was shown by their use of a common name, while the
choice of this name points out the tribe which at the moment when we first
meet them, in the fifth century, must have been the most powerful in the
confederacy." [Footnote: Green's History of the English People.] Among
themselves they bore in common the name of Englishmen.

Among the characteristics of those German ancestors of ours are the
following: They were very independent; the free landholder was "the
free-necked man." The ties of kinship were very strong. "Each kinsman was
his kinsman's keeper, bound to protect him from wrong, to hinder him from
wrong-doing, and to suffer with and pay for him if wrong were done."
[Footnote: Green's History of the English People.] They were very much
attached to home. "Land with the German race seems everywhere to have been
the accompaniment of full freedom.... The landless man ceased for all
practical purposes to be free, though he was no man's slave." [Footnote:
Green's History of the English People.] Among themselves they were quite
social. Though tillers of the soil they lived, not isolated, but grouped
together in small villages. This may have been partly for mutual
protection. They were lovers of law and order.

The Township.[Footnote: See American Political Ideas, pp. 31-63.]--The
derivation of the word "township" shows us to whom we are i