ELEMENTS OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT

A Text-Book for Use in Public Schools, High Schools and Normal Schools
and a Manual of Reference for Teachers

by

ALEX. L. PETERMAN

Late Principal and Professor of Civil Government in the Normal School
of the Kentucky State College, and Member of the Kentucky State Senate

New York Cincinnati Chicago
American Book Company

Revised to 1916.







DEDICATION.

To the thousands of devoted Teachers in every part of the land, who are
training the boys and girls of to-day to a true conception of American
citizenship, and to a deeper love for our whole country, this little
book is dedicated by a Brother in the work.