13 ITS STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT WITH THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED BY A. J. HUTTON INSTITUTE CONDUCTOR, STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, WHITEWATER, WISCONSIN Copyright, 1896, by NEW YORK ITS STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT WITH THE CONSTITUTION, AS AMENDED. COPYRIGHT 1896, BY MAYNARD, MERRILL, & Co. TO TEACHERS HELPS TO THE STUDY OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT This supplement is prepared as an aid to teachers in making the young people of Wisconsin acquainted with their State, its forms of government, and institutions. Necessarily, the various topics are treated with brevity, though, it is hoped, with sufficient thoroughness to suggest the way in which the whole work had best be taught by an interested and competent teacher. Whatever the pupil knows of the workings of local forms of government should be utilized constantly. He should be encouraged and directed to learn more by observation. Among the aids to this end, accessible to the ordinary teacher, the following are suggested: 1. The newspapers; party calls for the holding of caucuses and conventions; election notices; sample ballots; reports of court proceedings; reports of proceedings of town boards, county boards, and city councils, etc. 2. A copy of the Blue Book. 3. A copy of the Railroad Map of Wisconsin. 4. A copy of the Election Laws. 5. A copy of the School Laws. 6. A copy of the State Census Report. 7. Copies of the reports of the various state institutions. 8. Reports of the state officers, especially of the Secretary of State and the State Treasurer. The Annotated Statutes, the County History, Thwaites' Story of Wisconsin, the standard U. S. Histories, and the great Cyclopædias, when they can be had, should also be used freely, |