Section 3. _the Representative Township-County System in the

West._

The town-meeting in Michigan

Conflict between township and county systems in Illinois

Effects of the Ordinance of 1787

Intense vitality of the township system

County option and township option in Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Dakota

Grades of township government in the West

An excellent result of the absence of centralization in the United States

Effect of the self-governing school district in the South, in preparing the way for the self-governing township

Woman-suffrage in the school district

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