Excerpt from A Shorter Course in Civil Government: Arranged in Topics, With Numerous Questions for Convenience in Teaching; Prepared for the Use of Common, Select, and Grammar Schools Government in a really didactic form, was made by the author a few years ago, through his Analysis of Civil Government. Although the method was entirely new, and therefore open to fair criticism, that work has been received with favor, and is used as the text-book on the subject by many of our most prom incut institutions of learning. From its first appearance, the call for it has increased to an extent both flattering to the author, and gratifying to the publishers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.