Following each chapter are suggestions for work to supplement the
text. These suggestions are of six kinds, and are intended to meet a
variety of needs.

A number of easy questions on the text is first supplied.

Following these is a number of required readings to supplement each
chapter of the text. The student may be asked to read a single chapter
from Williamson's _Readings in American Democracy_, collected and
arranged so as to furnish in compact form and in a single volume
supplementary material which otherwise the teacher would have to find
in a number of separate books. In case the use of the _Readings_ is
not feasible, some or all of the alternative required readings may be
available.

The required readings are followed by a number of questions thereon.
Questions on the material contained in Williamson's _Readings in
American Democracy_ will be found at the end of each chapter in that
volume; questions on the required readings cited as alternative to
this volume will be found at the end of each chapter in the text.

Topic work is provided in two groups. Topics in the first group form a
link between the text and the everyday experience of the student on
the one hand, and between the activities of the student's local
community and national problems on the other. The student is called
upon, for example, to investigate the attitude of the local press
toward controversial questions, or to examine the administration of
local charitable relief. Topic work of this sort not only quickens the
interest of the student, but it encourages original investigation and