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Section 1. Various Local Systems.
We have now completed our outline sketch of town and county government as illustrated in New England on the one hand and in Virginia on the other. There are some important points in the early history of local government in other portions of the original thirteen states, to which we must next call attention; and then we shall be prepared to understand the manner in which our great western country has been organized under civil government. We must first say something about South Carolina and Maryland.
Wherever men have been placed, the problem of forming civil society has been in its main outlines the same; and in its earlier stages it has been approached in pretty much the same way by all.
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT.
1. Describe the early local government of eastern South Carolina.
2. Describe the early local government of western South Carolina.
3. Explain the difference.
4. What effort was made in 1768 to put a stop to lynch law?
5. What difficulties arose from the attempted adjustment of 1768?
6. What compromises were made between the two sections down to the time of the Civil War?
7. What changes have been made in local government since the Civil War?
8. Mention a peculiarity of the South Carolina county.
9. Compare its size with that of counties in other states.
10. What disadvantage is due to this great size?
11. What was the earliest form of civil community in Maryland, and from what source did it come?
12. Trace the development of the hundred in accordance with the following outline:--
a. Intermediate groups between clans and tribes. b. Illustrations from Greece and the North American Indians. c. The Roman century and the German hundred.
13. Describe the English hundred in the tenth century.
14. Describe the hundred court.
15. Describe the Maryland hundred and its decay.
16. What is the relation of the Delaware hundred to the county?
17. Describe the Delaware levy court.
18. What were the prominent features of the Pennsylvania county?
19. Compare the town-meetings of New York with those of New England.
20. What was the government of the New York county?
21. How did this government compare with that of the Virginia county?
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