a. Advising the legislature. b. Commanding the militia. c. Pardoning criminals or commuting their sentences. d. Vetoing acts of the legislature.
6. Why is the power to veto particular items in a bill appropriating public money an important safeguard against corruption?
7. Local self-government in the United States left unimpaired:—
a. The extent of state supervision of towns and counties. b. The spirit thus developed in American citizens.
8. A lesson from the symmetry of the French government:—
a. The departments and their administration.
b. The prefect and his duties.
c. The department council and its sphere of action.
d. The commune.
e. The French system contrasted with the American.
f. A common view of the political intelligence of the French.
g. The probable effect of excessive state control upon the
political intelligence of Americans.
9. The greatness of the functions retained by the states under the federal government:—
a. Powers granted to the government of the United States.
b. The reason for granting such powers,
c. The powers denied to the states.
d. The reason for such prohibitions.
e. The vast range of powers exercised by the states.
f. The most important subjects of legislation in England for the past
eighty years.
g. The governments, state or national, to which these twelve
subjects would have fallen in the United States.
10. Speak of the independence of the state courts.
11. In what cases only may matters be transferred from them to a federal court?