Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 219 pages of information about Our Government.

Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 219 pages of information about Our Government.

The amount of Treasury notes of 1890 is comparatively small, and this kind of money is destined to disappear within a few years.

SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS AND REFERENCES.

1.  The tariff schedule in force at the present time may be found in newspaper almanacs.  Is this tariff high, low, or moderate in its rate?

2.  The Statistical Abstract, published by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department, gives the list of items upon which duties and internal revenue taxes are collected, and the amounts yielded by each for a series of years; the expenditures of the government, with the chief items; a statement of the National debt; and statistics concerning the money of the United States.  See also any newspaper almanac.

3.  Why do liquors and tobaccos bear the heaviest excise taxes?  What reasons can you give for taxing the other articles mentioned on pp. 82-83?

4.  Because our coins contain one-tenth alloy, they are said to be nine-tenths fine.  Calculate from the weights of pure metal, given on p. 91, the total weights of the gold and silver dollars.

5.  For information concerning the Act of Congress fixing a “standard of weights and measures,” see Government in State and Nation, 188-189.

6.  The depreciation of the United States notes, referred to on p. 92, is shown graphically in Government in State and Nation, 185.

7.  For our money, see Reinsch, Young Citizen’s Reader, 101-103; Marriott, Uncle Sam’s Business, 97-119; 165-172; Century Book for Young Americans, 121-134.

8.  On commerce, read Harrison, This Country of Ours, 65-67.

9.  Finances.  Harrison, 59-65, and Chapter 12; Marriott, 109-127.

CHAPTER XI.

OTHER GENERAL POWERS OF CONGRESS.

I. POWER OF NATURALIZATION.

Who Are Citizens.—­Who are citizens of the United States is always a question of interest.  We find it clearly answered in the first clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as follows:  All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States, and of the States wherein they reside.

Thus there are two classes of citizens:  (1) those who are citizens by birth; (2) those who have been naturalized.  Children born in this country, though of foreign parentage, and residing here, may be considered American citizens if they choose.  According to an Act of Congress, passed in 1882, Chinese aliens may not be naturalized; but our Supreme Court has decided that a child born in the United States of Chinese parents is a citizen, if he desires to be.  Though born in a foreign country, a child whose father is an American citizen may claim the privilege of American citizenship.  Indians who keep their tribal relations are not included under the provisions of this section.

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