"Education, of the kind which is of any practical value in the government of a nation, means the teaching of human motives, of humanizing ideas, of some system whereby the majority of electors can distinguish the qualities of honesty and common-sense in the candidate they wish to elect. I do not pretend to say what that system may be, but I assert that no education which does not lead to that kind of knowledge is of any practical use to the voting majority of a constitutionally governed country."-F. M. Crawford. ILLUSTRATIONS Capitol at Washington Frontispiece In the Days when the King was the Dispenser of The Committee on the Declaration of Independence Sections 39 and 40 of Magna Charta PAGE 5 Officers Receiving and Weighing Coins, 1130-1174 Gladstone Addressing the House of Commons The Opening Lines of the Pennsylvania Charter The Seal of the State of Virginia Hooker's Emigration to Connecticut Lafayette The Charter Oak King John is Forced to Accept Magna Charta. The Committee on the Declaration of Independence Signatures of Declaration of Independence The Great Emancipator Signing of the Constitution President Wilson Addressing Congress A National Political Convention |