Problems in American Democracy

by Thames Williamson

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1. Congressional districts in your state.

2. The biography of one of the Senators representing your state in Congress.

3. Make a study of your Representatives in Congress, with respect to their age, length of service, political principles, and attitude toward such national questions as the tariff, military defense and taxation.

4. A brief comparison of Congress with your state legislature.

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5. Place of the Senate in our National government. (Reinsch, Readings on American Federal Government, pages 127-134.)

6. The House of Representatives in the United States compared with the British House of Commons. (Kaye, Readings in Civil Government, pages 149-155.)

7. Gerrymandering. (Beard, Readings in American Government and Politics, pages 219-220; see any other standard text on American Government.)

8. The immunities of Congressmen. (Cleveland, Organized Democracy, chapter xxvii.)