the Loan Division of the Columbia University Library, and his assistants have lightened my labors by the courteous and efficient manner in which they have placed thousands of volumes at my disposal during the past twelve months. PARK LANE, NEW MILFORD, ConnectICUT, July, 1909. CHARLES A. BEARD. NOTE. Each extract is numbered, and the source from which it is taken can be found by referring to the proper number in the Table of Contents and List of Citations. NOTE TO REVISED EDITION THE extensive use of this volume by teachers of Government and Politics convinces me that the original plan has proved to be fairly satisfactory, and I have, therefore, not recast the work for this edition. I have brought it more nearly abreast current questions by adding extracts from the party platforms of 1912 and selections illustrating presidential preference primaries, changes in the procedure of the House of Representatives, the recall, and the recall of judicial decisions. I have also added the Constitution of the United States, including the latest amendments. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, C. A. B. 9. Appointment of the South Carolina delegates. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–89, 1, 23 sq. 14 Journals of the Continental Congress (1906), V, 342, 357 sq. 13. The call for the Maryland state convention The Works of Alexander Hamilton (Federal edition), I, 401 sqq. 21. Ratification of the new Constitution Tiffany, J., A Treatise on Government and Constitutional Law, 81. 123 Poore, Constitutions of the United States, I, 402 sqq.; 821 sqq. Proceedings and Debates of the Virginia State Convention of Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of Pennsylvania Debates of the Convention of Pennsylvania (1872), II, 590 sq. Stanwood, A History of the Presidency (1903), 369 sqq. Jordan, W. G., The Five National Platforms (1912). Hammond, J. D., The History of Political Parties in the State of 47. The congressional caucus for nominating presidential candidates Niles, Weekly Register, I (third series), 388 sqq. 48. The Tennessee legislature protests against the caucus Ibid., I (third series), 137 sq. 49. Jackson's first national convention . Ibid., VI (fourth series), 234. 51. Lincoln's defense of the convention as a state party institution 252 599. |