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"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.

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Capitol at Washington

Frontispiece

In the Days when the King was the Dispenser of

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The Committee on the Declaration of Independence
The great Trust now Descends to New Hands .
Alfred, England's Greatest King

Sections 39 and 40 of Magna Charta

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Officers Receiving and Weighing Coins, 1130-1174
Trial of Weights and Measures, 1497

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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
Statue of Roger Williams

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

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James Otis against the Writs of Assistance

The Estates General, 1789

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The Frankfort Convention, 1848

The American Peace Commissioners at Paris, 1783 . 273

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