FOR CITIZENSHIP AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF CITIZENS BASED ON THE RELATIONS WHICH EXIST BETWEEN ORGANIZED SOCIETY AND ITS INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS, and BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF ORGANIZED SOCIETY BY JOSEPH WARREN SMITH, A.M. Attorney at Law Formerly Superintendent of Schools, Bay City, Michigan LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. Preface THIS work upon civics owes its existence to the fact that no one, so far as the author is aware, has attempted to cover the field in a similar way. There are numerous works upon civil government in which the Constitution of the United States has been discussed with great ability; other books have treated the subject from the social standpoint; still others have presented the principles of law; but this is an attempt to combine the essential elements of all these features, and, with an historical background as a setting, to render the relation of one field to another of easy comprehension to the immature mind. If this has been successfully done, the result will be of substantial advantage to the many youth in our schools who are even now upon the very threshold of life. An examination of the plan will show that considerable prominence has been given to the township and its government, for it is here that the pupil has the best opportunity to observe the workings of the governmental machine in its simplest form. Chapters V, XIX, and XXII are transitional, and are introduced with a view to the imparting of such information as will make the learner at home in his new surroundings; still other chapters par |