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Title: Elements of Civil Government

Author: Alexander L. Peterman

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ELEMENTS OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT

A Text-Book for Use in Public Schools, High Schools and Normal Schools
and a Manual of Reference for Teachers

by

ALEX. L. PETERMAN

Late Principal and Professor of Civil Government in the Normal School
of the Kentucky State College, and Member of the Kentucky State Senate

New York Cincinnati Chicago
American Book Company

Revised to 1916.

DEDICATION.

To the thousands of devoted Teachers in every part of the land, who are
training the boys and girls of to-day to a true conception of American
citizenship, and to a deeper love for our whole country, this little
book is dedicated by a Brother in the work.

PREFACE.

This text-book begins "at home." The starting-point is the family, the
first form of government with which the child comes in contact. As his
acquaintance with rightful authority increases, the school, the civil
district, the township, the county, the State, and the United States
are taken up in their order.

The book is especially intended for use in the public schools. The
plan is the simplest yet devised, and is, therefore, well adapted to
public school purposes. It has been used by the author for many years,
in public schools, normal schools, and teachers' institutes. It
carefully and logically follows the much praised and much neglected
synthetic method. All students of the science of teaching agree that
beginners in the study of government should commence with the known,
and gradually proce