From present indications it would seem that under the
conditions of modern industrial society the arrangements that have so
long subsisted are likely to be very essentially altered.
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT.
1. Describe the origin and development of the town-meeting in
Michigan.
2. Describe the settling of southern Illinois.
3. Describe the settling of northern Illinois.
4. What difference in thought and feeling existed between these
sections?
5. What systems of local government came into rivalry in Illinois, and
why?
6. What compromise between them was put into the state constitution?
7. Which system, the town or the county, has shown the greater
vitality, and why?
8. What obstacles has the town system to work against?
9. Show how the principle of local option in government has been
applied in Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Dakota.
10. What two grades of town government exist west of the Alleghanies?
11. What objection exists to large county boards of government?
12. Why is our country an excellent field for the study of the
principles of government?
13. What unmistakable tendency in the ease of township government is
noticeable?
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