t of treason?
Sec.4. How was treason punished by the common law? How has congress made it
punishable?
Sec.5. What is attainder? Its meaning here? By the common law, how did the
sentence of death for treason affect the traitor? What has congress
declared concerning conviction for treason?
Chapter XLIV.
Sec.1. What is the object of the provision concerning state records?
Sec.2. In giving effect to this provision, what has congress enacted? In
case of a judicial proceeding, what is required? What in case of an act
of a state legislature?
Sec.3. What is meant by the clause concerning the privileges of citizens in
the several states? Without such provision, what might a state do?
Sec.4. How is a fugitive from justice arrested and returned for trial?
Sec.5. Who are meant by "persons held to service or labor, escaping into
another state?" What provision of the common law induced the adoption of
this clause?
Sec.6. How are fugitives from slavery apprehended and returned? Is the law
requiring the capture and return of fugitive slaves, in your opinion,
morally binding?
Sec.7. What induced the provision for admitting new states? What states
have been formed from the north-western territory?
Sec.8. What unsettled tract was south of the Ohio? Whose consent to the
division of a state does the constitution require?
Sec.9. In the right to acquire territory, what other right is implied? Had
the old congress this power? What has congress done under the power here
granted?
Sec.10. How is a republican form of government secured to the states? How
are they to be protected against invasion and domestic violence? What is
meant by domestic violence?
Chapter XLV.
Sec.1. How are constitutional amendments proposed? How ratified?
Sec.2. What good is supposed to have resulted from so difficult a mode of
amendment?
Sec.3. For what reasons was the new government made to assume the debts of
the old?
Sec.4. Why is the constitution of the United States, and the laws and
treaties made under it, made binding above all state authority?
Sec.5. Why are public officers bound by oath to support the constitution,
and to discharge their duties faithfully?
Sec.6. What is a religious _test_? What was it in England? Why was it
forbidden by the constitution?
Sec.7. What does the last article declare? Why was not the ratification of
all the states required? Why was the ratification of so many as nine
requir
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