Chapter XXVI

§2. What is there in our government that renders a knowledge of it important to the people?

§3. To what country were the American colonies subject? What is a _colony_?

§4. Whence did the people derive their rights and privileges? What was the _form_ of the colonial governments?

§5. From whom did the officers derive their power? Were any elected? On whose approval did the laws finally depend?

§6. What was the effect of this upon the colonists? What was the object of the laws of parliament relating to the colonies?

§6, 7. What did some of these laws require?

§8. By what particular means did that government secure the colonial trade? Define _duty_.

§9. Explain the nature and effect of these duties.

§10. What right did parliament claim? What act was accordingly passed? What did the colonists do? What was the final result?