CONTENTS

PART FIRST.

ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT.

CHAP.

I. PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT

CLASSIFICATION OF GOVERNMENTS

II.

PART SECOND.

RISE OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS.

II.

I. SOURCE OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS

GROWTH OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT

III.

IV.

OUTLINE OF THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

V.

THE GOVERNMENT UNDER THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDER-

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II. MUNICIPAL LAW.

1. Civil Rights

2. Wrongs

1. Rules in Time of Peace

2. Rules in Time of War .

APPENDICES.

I. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

II.

III.

DELEGATES TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

3. Obligations of Belligerents to Each Other

4. Obligations of Neutrals and Belligerents to Each

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ABBREVIATIONS

Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, American and English Encyclo pedia of Law.

Blackstone, Commentaries.

Bouvier, Bouvier's Law Dictionary.

Cooley, Cooley on Constitutional Law.

Int. Dict., Webster's International Dictionary.
Kent, Commentaries on American Law.
Maine, Ancient Law.

Rutherford, Institutes.

Story, Commentaries on the Constitution.
Tomlins, Tomlins' Law Dictionary.
Va. Cas., Virginia Cases.

Vattel, The Law of Nations.

Italics in quotations are the authors'.