ed?
Sec.8. When did this state ratify? When did North Carolina and Rhode Island
come into the union?
Sec.9. When were electors of president chosen? When was the president
elected, and when inaugurated? When did proceedings under the
constitution commence?
Chapter XLVI.
Sec.1. How many articles of amendment are there? What is the nature of most
of them? Why then were they added? When were the first ten proposed and
ratified?
Sec.2. What is forbidden by the first amendment?
Sec.3. What right is guarantied by the second amendment? Why is this right
necessary?
Sec.4. What does the third amendment declare? What probably suggested it?
Sec.5. What right is guarantied by the fourth article? What evil is it
intended to prevent?
Sec.6. What rights does the fifth article guaranty? Can you give any reason
why a person fairly tried and acquitted should not be tried again? What
does the sixth article require?
Sec.7. What is secured by the seventh amendment? What is meant by suits at
common law? What are courts of admiralty? How is the latter part of this
article explained?
Sec.8. What does the eighth article forbid? What evils was it designed to
prevent?
Sec.9. What is the ninth article? What evil was it designed to prevent?
Sec.10. What does the tenth amendment declare? Explain it.
Sec.11. When was the eleventh article proposed and ratified? What is it?
What was it intended to prevent?
Sec.12. What does the twelfth amendment effect? When was it proposed and
ratified?
Chapter XLVII.
Sec.1. How are the municipal or civil laws distinguished from the
fundamental or political law?
Sec.2. What are statute laws?
Sec.3. What is the common law? Is it law in this country?
Sec.4. What are the rights of person? Personal security? Personal liberty?
How are they guarantied?
Sec.5. How may a man protect himself when in danger of personal injury?
What remedy for violence committed?
Sec.6. How far may a man go in defending himself or his property? What is
such killing called?
Sec.7. How are we protected in our good names? What is slander?
Sec.8. What is libel? Which is considered the greater injury? For which is
a person liable in both a civil and criminal suit?
Sec.9. What is the rule of the common law in the case of a criminal action
for libel? What is the reason for this principle?
Sec.10. What distinction do some make between cases of public and private
prosecution for lib
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