TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT

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1. Make a study of a club or society of which you are a member, or
with which you are familiar. To what extent does its organization
illustrate the check and balance system?

2. Classify local or state officials in your commonwealth, in order to
show differences in term and differences in the method of choosing
them. To what extent do these differences constitute a check and
balance system?

3. Make a list of the guarantees of personal liberty which are
contained in the constitution of your state. Compare this list with
similar lists made from the constitutions of other states. Compare the
list with the first ten Amendments to the Federal Constitution.

4. Methods by which the constitution of your state may be amended.

5. Make a list of the chief public activities in your community or
section. Which are local, which state, and which Federal? Do you
believe that any of these functions could be more advantageously
performed by some other division of government than that which is now
performing it? Give reasons.


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6. "Why democracy is best." (Tufts, _The Real Business of Living_,