the Loan Division of the Columbia University Library, and his assistants have lightened my labors by the courteous and efficient manner in which they have placed thousands of volumes at my disposal during the past twelve months. PARK LANE, New Milford, Connecticut, NOTE. July, 1909. CHARLES A. BEARD. Each extract is numbered, and the source from which it is taken can be found by referring to the proper number in the Table of Contents and List of Citations. NOTE TO REVISED EDITION THE extensive use of this volume by teachers of Government and Politics convinces me that the original plan has proved to be fairly satisfactory, and I have, therefore, not recast the work for this edition. I have brought it more nearly abreast current questions by adding extracts from the party platforms of 1912 and selections illustrating presidential preference primaries, changes in the procedure of the House of Representatives, the recall, and the recall of judicial decisions. I have also added the Constitution of the United States, including the latest amendments. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, November 14, 1913. C. A. B. CONTENTS AND LIST OF CITATIONS Hening, Statutes at Large, V, 489 s99., and 175. 7. The Boston committee of correspondence Boston Town Records, 1770-77, 92 sq. 8. Massachusetts calls the first Continental Congress Force, American Archives (4th series), I, 420. 9. Appointment of the South Carolina delegates. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–89, 1, 23 sq. 12. Continental Congress recommends the establishment of state gov- ernments. Journals of the Continental Congress (1906), V, 342, 357 sq. 2535 wwwww 13. The call for the Maryland state convention PAGE 17. Difficulties confronting the Convention 18. Hamilton's plea for a strong and stable government The Works of Alexander Hamilton (Federal edition), I, 401 sqq. 44. Ratincation of the new Constitution Tutany, J., & Treatise on Government and Constitutional Law, 81. Debates of the Convention of Pennsylvania (1872), II, 590 sq. (1837), II, 412 sqq. Stanwood, A History of the Presidency (1903), 180. 96 |