The government class book: Designed for the instruction of youth in the principles of constitutional government and the rights and duties of citizens.Young, Andrew W. (Andrew White)
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The government class book: Designed for the instruction of youth in the principles of constitutional government and the rights and duties of citizens.
Young, Andrew W. (Andrew White)
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§3. Why are crimes punishable by death called _capital_ crimes? Define
capital.
§4. Define treason.
§5. What is murder? Are there different degrees of murder in this state?
§6. Define manslaughter. How many degrees of manslaughter in this state?
§7. What is arson? Define arson in the first degree. How is this degree
punishable in this state?
§8. What is homicide? When is it felonious? What is justifiable and
excusable homicide?
§9. What is maiming? Kidnapping? What other crimes are here mentioned as
felonies?
§10. What is burglary? Why is the crime deemed greater when committed in
the night time?
§11. Define forgery and counterfeiting?
§12. Define robbery, and an attempt to rob.
§13. What is embezzlement? How is it punishable?
§14. What is larceny? What is _grand_, and what is _petit_ larceny?
§15. What is perjury? What is subornation of perjury?
§16. Define bribery.
§17. What is dueling? Is dueling murder in this state?
§18. Is aiding a prisoner to escape a crime?
§19. What is bigamy? What is the difference between bigamy and polygamy?
§20. What is incest?
§21. In what case is opening a grave a crime? How is it punishable in
this state?
§22. Who are accessories to crime?
§23. Define assault and battery.
§24. What is a riot? How may riots be suppressed?
§25. What grade of offense is it for an officer to rescue a prisoner or
voluntarily to suffer him to escape?
§26. What is false imprisonment?
§27. What grade of offense are the four offenses last named? What other
misdemeanors are mentioned in this section? Can you name any other?
Chapter LXIII.
§1. Of what consists the law of nations? What was its early character?
§2. By what means has it been improved?
§3. What particular further improvement is desirable?
§4. What is said of the independence of nations? How, then, is redress
for injuries obtained?
§5. What right has a nation in respect to its government? To this rule,
what exception do some make?
§6. In what cases may one nation assist another in changing its
government?
§7. In what respect are nations mutually dependent?
§8. By what law ought all nations to be governed? What does this law
require?
§9. By what names is this law when applied to nations or states called?
Why is it so called?
§10. For what reasons do some writers divide it into the _natural_ and
_positive_ laws of nations?
§11. Define the positive law of nations. How is it divided? Define the
customary law of nations.
§12. What is a conventional law of nations? Define _convention_.
§13. What is the advantage of conventional law?
§14. By what consideration is the observance of treaties induced?
§15. What is a perfect obligation? An imperfect obligation? Why are the
obligations of nations called imperfect?
Chapter LXIV.
§1. What rights have nations on the seas? By what laws are persons at
sea governed?
§2. Over what waters flowing through its territory has a nation
jurisdiction? To what distance on the sea?
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