8. What would be the principal advantage in extending the term of the President and making him ineligible to succeed himself?
9. Do you think the custom a wise one which prohibits the President from serving more than two terms?
10. What were the controversies at issue in the disputed election of 1876?
11. What were the objections to the method of nomination by congressional caucus? Who was the last candidate to be nominated by this method?
12. Tell something about the first national convention held in the United States for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President.
13. How many parties nominated candidates for President and Vice President in the last presidential election? Give the popular vote received by each, in your state and in the country as a whole.
14. Read the platforms of each party and contrast their positions on the leading political issues.
15. How many delegates is your state entitled to in the national convention? Who were the delegates at large from your state in the last Democratic national convention? In the last Republican national convention?
16. Where did the Democratic and Republican parties hold their last national conventions? Who was the permanent chairman of each?
17. What is your opinion of the "unit rule" followed by the Democratic party? Of the "two-thirds" rule?