FOR

YOUNG AMERICANS;

OR,

FIRST LESSONS IN GOVERNMENT.

CONTAINING A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT FORMS
OF GOVERNMENT, AND A FULL AND CLEAR EXPLA-

NATION OF THE IMPORTANT CLAUSES OF

OUR CONSTITUTION.

BY

WM. M. GIFFIN, A.M.

NEW YORK:

A LOVELL & COMPANY.

1888.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
047X1721

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1888, by WM. M. GIFFIN,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

TYPOGRAPHY BY J. S. CUSHING & Co., Boston.

ΤΟ

“Uncle Sam,"

and his nephews and nieces throughout the Union,

this little book is respectfully

DEDICATED