10. What suggestions can you make for the prevention of existing delays in the administration of justice?
Topics for Debate
1. The power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional should be taken away.
2. Trial by jury should be abolished in civil cases.
3. The loser in a law suit should not be compelled to pay all the winner’s costs, including his lawyer’s fees.
CHAPTER XVII
NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
The purpose of this chapter is to show what nature has done for the United States, and to explain the relation between national prosperity and natural resources.
The source of America’s greatness:
The Things that Make a Nation Great.—Three things have contributed greatly to the upbuilding of the American nation. The first is the wide extent, the richness, and the varied character of American territory. The United States is not only a vast country, surpassed in area by very few other countries of the world, but it possesses great natural advantages. |1. The land and its resources.| It contains, as will be seen presently, extensive regions which are well-suited for almost every form of human activity, including agriculture in all its branches, manufacture, mining, forestry, transportation, and trade. It is abundantly provided with natural harbors and waterways. In soil and climate there is great variety. No other country of the world can produce so many different things under such favorable conditions.
2. The initiative and industry of its people.