Title:  Civil Government for Common Schools

Author:  Henry C. Northam

Release Date:  February, 2004 [EBook #5065] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on April 12, 2002]

Edition:  10

Language:  English

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CIVIL GOVERNMENT FOR COMMON SCHOOLS.

Prepared as A manual for public instruction in the state of new York.

To which are appended the Constitution of the State of New York as amended at the election of 1880, the Constitution of the United States, and the Declaration of Independence.

By Henry C. Northam,

Conductor of teachers’ institutes.

PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.

Instruction in Civil Government should be both theoretical and practical.  Unfortunately the text-books in general use stop with the theory.

They deal with the science of government, but, being intended for use throughout the United States, they give no information as to the art of government as practiced in this State.

Our students learn what is the guaranty of Republican government, but not how that government is exercised in their own town.

They are drilled in Incorporeal Hereditaments, but do not learn what kind of causes can be tried before a Justice of the Peace.

To supply this deficiency, is the aim of the present manual.  Beginning with the school district, the names, manner of election, duties, and salaries are given of all important officers from the school trustee to the President of the United States.

The rapid sale of the First and Second Editions of this book encourages the hope that, with the additions now made, this manual may be considered indispensable in every progressive school in the State of New York.

Henry C. Northam.  Lowville, April 22, 1878.

I.—­INTRODUCTION.

Officers are elected to administer the government for

  I. The United State
 II.  Each State
III.  Counties. 
 IV.  Cities
  V. Towns
 VI.  Districts

The following are names given to some of the different kinds of districts in the State of N. York

  I. Road, School and Election Districts. 
 II.  School Commissioner Districts. 
III.  Assembly districts
 IV.  Senatorial districts
  V. Congressional districts
 VI.  Judicial districts