Chapter XXVIII

§2. What is a confederacy? Was the confederation a union of people? or a union of states? From what does this appear?

§3. What is the union under the constitution? Where is this declared?

§4. What is said of the former independence of the states? What power has the general government acquired by the constitution?

§5. How did the equality of the states in the old congress appear? To how many delegates were they entitled? How did they vote?

§6. How are the states now represented? How do representatives vote?

§7. State the difference between the bodies that framed and ratified the two instruments respectively.

§8. Was the government under the confederation properly _national_? How does it appear that it was not? What change did the constitution effect?

§9. What early act of the constitutional convention shows the present government to be national?

§10. What departments of power were wanting under the confederation?

§11. Is the present government wholly national? Why not?