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e public defense? What does the word _militia_ include? Sec.2. For what other purpose may portions of the militia be wanted? Define _insurrection_ and _rebellion_. Sec.3. Who are liable to do military service? Who are exempt by the laws of the states generally? Sec.4. Who by the laws of the United States? Sec.5. What military authority have the governors and the president? Why have they this power? Sec.6. How are persons dealt with for non-attendance and delinquency at parades? Sec.7. What are the duties of the adjutant-general? Sec.8. What is the business of a commissary-general? Is there one in this state? Define _arsenal_. Sec.9. What is done in the case of persons averse to bearing arms? Are any exempt in this state without commuting? Sec.10. What regulations exist in New York and Ohio? Sec.11. For what reasons is the drilling of the whole militia deemed unnecessary? Sec.12. What is your opinion of war? What is a better way of settling disputes between nations? Chapter XXVI. Sec.2. What is there in our government that renders a knowledge of it important to the people? Sec.3. To what country were the American colonies subject? What is a _colony_? Sec.4. Whence did the people derive their rights and privileges? What was the _form_ of the colonial governments? Sec.5. From whom did the officers derive their power? Were any elected? On whose approval did the laws finally depend? Sec.6. What was the effect of this upon the colonists? What was the object of the laws of parliament relating to the colonies? Sec.6, 7. What did some of these laws require? Sec.8. By what particular means did that government secure the colonial trade? Define _duty_. Sec.9. Explain the nature and effect of these duties. Sec.10. What right did parliament claim? What act was accordingly passed? What did the colonists do? What was the final result? Chapter XXVII. Sec.1. When did the first continental congress meet? How were its members chosen? What great act did it do in 1776? Sec.2. What did it in November, 1777? When did the confederation go into effect? Sec.3. How did the union formed by it prove? What was the probable cause of its imperfections? Sec.4. What was its leading defect? Mention some instances of its weakness? Sec.5. What probably aided in inducng compliance with the ordinances of congress? Sec.6. What new difficulties arose after peace? What difficulty atte
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