2. Classify the problems on your list according as they are economic, social or political.
3. Classify the problems on your list according as they are local, state or national.
4. Comment upon the complexity and inter-relationship of the problems so classified.
5. What agencies, public, semi-public, or private, are studying the problems on your list?
6. What difference of interest do the citizens of your community show in local, state and national problems?
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7. Defects of democratic government the world over. (Bryce, Modern Democracies, vol. ii, pages 452-454.)
8. The background of the problems of American democracy. (Merriam, American Political Ideas, chapter i.)
9. The hindrances to good citizenship. (Bryce, Hindrances to Good Citizenship.)
10. The promise of American life. (Croly, The Promise of American Life, chapter i.)