HOW WE ARE GOVERNED

IN

STATE AND NATION

By

CHARLES S. MAY

PILGRIM PUBLISHING COMPANY

MARSHALL, MICHIGAN

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1899, by

CHARLES S. MAY,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D, C.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE,

EVERY American citizen should know something about the institutions of his country and the laws by which he is governed. This work, which first appeared as a series of articles in the Kalamazoo Telegraph, is intended to give, in a comparatively brief compass, some aid to the acquisition of such knowledge. Its author has been induced to put these articles in book form by the advice of many friends, and from the marked degree of public favor which was accorded them at the time of their publication.

In recasting them for this purpose it has been thought best to leave their form and substance unchanged, the articles simply appearing as chapters; the popular newspaper style in which they were written being more simple and direct, and thus better calculated to interest the reader. It should be understood, also, that it is not the purpose of the work to give a dry statement of facts, or collection of laws, but rather to put life and motion into our republican system, and show the machinery of the State and General Governments in action, working together in their different orbits for the good of the people.

C. S. M.