And
the difficulty, in those colonial times, was plainly want of adequate
self-government, want of responsibility on the part of the public
servants toward their employers the people.
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT.
1. What was the origin of the _casters_ and _chesters_ that are found
in England to-day?
2. Trace the development of the English borough until it became
a kind of hundred.
3. Compare this borough, with the hundred in the administration
of justice.
4. Trace the further development of the borough in cases in
which it became a county.
5. Illustrate this development with London, showing how the elements of
the township, the hundred, and the shire government enter into its civic
organization.
6. Explain the origin and the objects of the various guilds.
7. Speak of the "town guild" under the following heads:--
a. Its composition and power.
b. Its relation to citizenship.
c. Its place of meeting.
d. The aldermen.
e. The common council.
f. The chief magistrate.
8. Compare the government of London with that of Great Britain or of the
United States.
9. Give some account of the lord mayor, the aldermen, and the councilmen
of London.
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