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LESSON XVIII
BEHAVIOR
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to open a
book. Manners are the happy ways of doing things. They form at last a
rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details
adorned. Manners are very communicable; men catch them from each other.
The power of manners is incessant,--an element as unconcealable as
fire. The nobility cannot in any country be disguised, and no more in
a republic or a democracy than in a kingdom. No man can resist their
influence. There are certain manners which are learned in good
society, and if a person have them, he or she must be considered, and
is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genius.
Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of
palaces and fortune wherever he goes.
Bad behavior the laws cannot reach. Society is infested with rude,
restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest. Bad manners
are social inflictions which the magistrate cannot cure or defend you
from, and which must be intrusted to the restraining force of custom.
Familiar rules of behavior should be impressed on young people in their
school-days.
LESSON XIX
ESSENCE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
1. Congress must meet at least once a year.
(Congress consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.)
2. One State cannot undo the acts of another.
3. Congress may admit any number of new States.
4. One State must respect the laws and legal decisions of another.
5. Every citizen is guaranteed a speedy trial by jury.
6. Congress cannot pass a law to punish a crime already committed.
7. Bills of revenue can originate only in the House of Representatives.
8. A person committing a crime in one State cannot find refuge in
another.
9. The Constitution forbids excessive bail or cruel punishment.
10. Treaties with foreign countries are made by the President and
ratified by the Senate.
11. Writing alone does not constitute treason against the United
States. There must be an overt act.
12. An Act of Congress cannot become law over the vote of the President
except by a two-thirds vote of both Houses.
13. The Territories each send one delegate to Congress, who has the
right to debate, but not the right to vote.
14. An officer of the Government cannot accept any title of nobility,
order or gift without the permission of Congress.
15. Only a natural-born citizen of the United States can become
President or Vice-President of the United States.
SELECTION VIII
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
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