§11. For what reasons is the drilling of the whole militia deemed unnecessary? §12. What is your opinion of war? What is a better way of settling disputes between nations? Chapter XXVI. §2. What is there in our government that renders a knowledge of it important to the people? §3. To what country were the American colonies subject? What is a _colony_? §4. Whence did the people derive their rights and privileges? What was the _form_ of the colonial governments? §5. From whom did the officers derive their power? Were any elected? On whose approval did the laws finally depend? §6. What was the effect of this upon the colonists? What was the object of the laws of parliament relating to the colonies? §6, 7. What did some of these laws require? §8. By what particular means did that government secure the colonial trade? Define _duty_. §9. Explain the nature and effect of these duties. §10. What right did parliament claim? What act was accordingly passed? What did the colonists do? What was the final result? Chapter XXVII. §1. When did the first continental congress meet? How were its members chosen? What great act did it do in 1776? §2. What did it in November, 1777? When did the confederation go into effect? §3. How did the union formed by it prove? What was the probable cause of its imperfections? §4. What was its leading defect? Mention some instances of its weakness? §5. What probably aided in inducng compliance with the ordinances of congress? §6. What new difficulties arose after peace? What difficulty attended the laying of duties by the states? §7. For what other purpose did congress need the power to lay duties? How had Great Britain secured the carrying trade? §8. What other trouble arose from this imperfect union? §9. How was this difficulty sought to be remedied? §10. What was the result of the meeting at Annapolis? §11. In what did the recommending of a convention result? How was the constitution ratified in the states? §12. To give it effect, how many states must ratify? When were ratifications received from Rhode Island and North Carolina? Chapter XXVIII. §2. What is a confederacy? Was the confederation a union of people? or a union of states? From what does this appear? §3. What is the union under the constitution? Where is this declared? §4. What is said of the former independence of the states? What power has the general government acquired by the constitution? §5. How did the equality of the states in the old congress appear? To how many delegates were they entitled? How did they vote? §6. How are the states now represented? How do representatives vote? §7. State the difference between the bodies that framed and ratified the two instruments respectively. §8. Was the government under the confederation properly _national_? How does it appear that it was not? What change did the constitution effect?