Chapter I: Front Matter

Laws defined

Chapter IV.

Different Forms of Government. Monarchy; Aristocracy; Democracy;
Republic

State Governments.

Chapter V.

The Nature and Objects of a Constitution, and the manner in which
it is made

Chapter VI.

Qualifications of Electors; or, by whom Political Power is
exercised in the States of this Union

Chapter VII.

Elections

Chapter VIII.

Division of the Powers of Government

Chapter IX.

States Legislatures--how constituted

Chapter X.

Meetings and Organization of the Legislature

Chapter XI.

Manner of Enacting Laws

Chapter XII.

Executive Department. Governor and Lieutenant Governor

Chapter XIII.

Assistant Executive State Officers

Chapter XIV.

Counties and County Officers. Powers and Duties of County Officers

Chapter XV.

Towns and Town Officers. Powers and Duties of Town Officers

Chapter XVI.

Incorporation and Government of Cities, Villages, &c.

Chapter XVII.

Judicial Department. Justices' Courts

Chapter XVIII.

Trial by Jury; Execution; Attachment; Appeals; Arrest of Offenders

Chapter XIX.

Courts other than Justices' Courts; Grand and Petit Juries, &c.

Chapter XX.

Chancery or Equity Courts; Probate Courts; Court of Impeachment

Chapter XXI.

Assessment and Collection of Taxes

Chapter XXII.

Education. School Funds; Schools, &c.

Chapter XXIII.

Canals and Railroads

Chapter XXIV.

Banks and Insurance Companies

Chapter XXV.

The Militia

Government of the United States.

Chapter XXVI.

Causes of the Revolution

Chapter XXVII.

Nature of the Union under the Confederation

Chapter XXVIII.

Nature of the Union under the Constitution

Chapter XXIX.

Legislative Department. House of Representatives

Chapter XXX.

The Senate

Chapter XXXI.

Power of Congress to lay Taxes, Duties, &c.; Power to Borrow Money

Chapter XXXII.

Power to Regulate Commerce. Commerce with Foreign Nations

Chapter XXXIII.

Power to Regulate Commerce, continued. Navigation; Commerce among
the States, and with the Indian Tribes

Chapter XXXIV.

Powers of Congress in Relation to Naturalization; Bankruptcy;
Coining Money; Weights and Measures; Punishment of Counterfeiting

Chapter XXXV.

Powers of Congress in Relation to Post-Offices; Copy-Rights and
Patents; Inferior Courts

Chapter XXXVI.

Powers of Congress in Relation to Piracy and Offenses against the
Law of Nations; War; Marque and Reprisal; Public Defense; District
of Columbia; Implied Powers

Chapter XXXVII.

Prohibitions on Congress

Chapter XXXVIII.

Prohibition on the States

Chapter XXXIX.

Executive Department. President and Vice-President; their Election,
Qualifications, &c.

Chapter XL.

Powers and Duties of the President; Treaties; Public Ministers;
Appointments and Removals

Chapter XLI.

Auxiliary Executive Departments. Departments of State, of the
Treasury, of the Interior, of War, of the Navy, of the Post-Office;
Attorney General

Chapter XLII.

Judicial Department. District Courts; Circuit Courts; Supreme Court

Chapter XLIII.

Treason Defined, its Punishment

Chapter XLIV.

State Records; Privileges of Citizens; Fugitives; Admission of New
States; Power over Territory; Guaranty of Republican Government

Chapter XLV.

Provision for Amendments; Assumptions of Public Debt; Supremacy of
the Constitution, &c.; Oaths and Tests; Ratification of the
Constitution

Chapter XLVI.

Amendments to the Constitution

Common and Statutory Law.

Chapter XLVII.

Rights of Persons. Personal Security; Personal Liberty; Religious
Liberty; Liberty of Speech, and of the Press; Right of Property

Chapter XLVIII.

Domestic Relations. Husband and Wife

Chapter XLIX.

Domestic Relations, continued. Parent and Child; Guardian and Ward;
Minors; Masters, Apprentices, and Servants

Chapter L.

Rights of Property. How Title to Property is acquired; Wills and
Testaments; Title to Property by Descent

Chapter LI.

Deeds and Mortgages

Chapter LII.

Incorporeal Hereditaments, Right of Way; Aquatic Rights, &c.

Chapter LIII.

Leases. Estates for Life; Estates for Years; Estates at Will;
Estates by Sufferance; Rent, &c.

Chapter LIV.

Contracts in General

Chapter LV.

Contracts of Sale

Chapter LVI.

Fraudulent Sales; Assignments; Gifts, &c.

Chapter LVII.

Bailment

Chapter LVIII.

Principal and Agent, or Factor; Broker; Lien, &c.

Chapter LIX.

Partnership

Chapter LX.

Promissory Notes

Chapter LXI.

Bills of Exchange; Interest; Usury

Chapter LXII.

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Law of Nations.

Chapter LXIII.

Origin and Progress of the Law of Nations; the Natural, Customary,
and Conventional Laws of Nations

Chapter LXIV.

The Jurisdiction of Nations; their mutual Rights and Obligations;
the Rights of Embassadors, Ministers, &c.

Chapter LXV.

Offensive and Defensive War; just Causes of War; Reprisals;
Alliances in War

Chapter LXVI.

Declaration of War; its Effect upon the Person and Property of the
Enemy's Subjects; Stratagems in War; Privateering

Chapter LXVII.

Rights and Duties of Neutral Nations; Contraband Goods; Blockade;
Right of Search; Safe Conducts and Passports; Truces; Treaties of
Peace

Synopsis of the State Constitutions.

Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Texas Arkansas Missouri Tennessee Kentucky Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Iowa California Minnesota

Constitution of the United States

Government Class Book.

Principles of Government.