l of the government for self-control in the use
of food or fuel, for a restriction of hours of business, for
"gas-less Sundays," have met with so ready, so generous and
so sufficient a response. Our American lads, alert,
adaptable, swiftly-trained, self-directed, have been quite
the equal of the continental soldiers, with their longer
technical training and more rigorous military discipline. In
these respects the English, and especially the British
colonial soldiers have been much like our own. Democracy,
whether for peace or for war, in America or in England,
favors individuality. Independence of thought and action on
the part of the mass of the people are alike the result of
democracy and the condition of its continuance and more
complete development, and it is visibly growing in England as
the trammels of old political and social class control are
being thrown off.

EDWARD P. CHEYNEY: _Historical Tests of Democracy_

What is a constitution? Certainly not a league, compact, or
confederacy, but a fundamental law. That fundamental
regulation which determines the manner in which the public
authority is to be executed, is what forms the constitution
of a state. Those primary rules which concern the body
itself, and the very being of the political society, the form
of government, and the manner in which power is to be
exercised--all, in a word, which form together the
constitution of a state--these are the fundamental laws.
This, Sir, is the language of the public writers. But do we
need to be informed, in this country, what a constitution
is? Is it not an idea perfectly familiar, definite, and well
settled? We are at no loss to understand what is meant by the
constitution of one of the States; and the Constitution of
the United States speaks of itself as being an instrument of
the same nature.

DANIEL WEBSTER: _The Constitution Not a Compact
between Sovereign States_, 1833

Particulars of a General Statement. A general statement made at the
beginning of a paragraph or section, serving as the topic sentence,
may then be explained by breaking the general idea up into details and
particulars. This may partake of the nature of both definition and
partition, as the terms may be explained and their component parts
listed. Note that in the following selection the first sentences state
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