Have the poor, the ignorant, or the unprincipled any interests to be
regarded in government?
10. Is the single vote a man casts the full measure of his influence and
power in the town-meeting?
11. What are the objections to a suffrage restricted by property and
intellectual qualifications? To a suffrage unrestricted by such
qualifications?
12. Do women vote in your town? If so, give some account of their voting
and of the success or popularity of the plan.
13. Is lynch law ever justifiable?
14. Ought those who resort to lynch law to be punished? If so, for what?
15. Compare the condition or government of a community where lynch law
is resorted to with the condition or government of a community where it
is unknown.
16. May the citizen who is not an officer of the law interfere (1) to
stop the fighting of boys in the public streets, (2) to capture a thief
who is plying his trade, (3) to defend a person who is brutally
assaulted? Is there anything like lynch law i.e. such interference? Where
does the citizen's duty begin and end In such cases?
17. How came the United States to own the public domain or any part of
it? (Consult my _Critical Period of Amer.
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