2. Is it now considered difficult to amend the Constitution? Bryce,
American Commonwealth, I, 359-362 (368-371).
3. What were the conditions under which the Emancipation Proclamation
was issued? Wilson, Division and Reunion, 226-228.
4. Was the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment a wise policy?
5. Give the arguments in favor of the Sixteenth Amendment.
6. What reasons can you give in favor of the Seventeenth Amendment?
CHAPTER XIX.
THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD.
Kinds of Governments.--It is customary to classify the governments
of the world under two heads: (1) republics, (2) monarchies. The real
nature of our republic may be made more apparent by a comparison of our
system with that of other republics, and with the governments of certain
great monarchies.
Our Federal Republic.--It has been emphasized in the course of our
study that the States are important parts in the political system which
we call the Republic of the United States. The States are not mere
administrative divisions of the nation; they do not stand in the same
relation to the National government that counties bear to the State.
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