§1. How are constitutional amendments proposed? How ratified?
§2. What good is supposed to have resulted from so difficult a mode of
amendment?
§3. For what reasons was the new government made to assume the debts of
the old?
§4. Why is the constitution of the United States, and the laws and
treaties made under it, made binding above all state authority?
§5. Why are public officers bound by oath to support the constitution,
and to discharge their duties faithfully?
§6. What is a religious _test_? What was it in England? Why was it
forbidden by the constitution?
§7. What does the last article declare? Why was not the ratification of
all the states required? Why was the ratification of so many as nine
required?
§8. When did this state ratify? When did North Carolina and Rhode Island
come into the union?
§9. When were electors of president chosen? When was the president
elected, and when inaugurated? When did proceedings under the
constitution commence?