History and government of the United States, for evening schools . ; it makes the __ laws for the inheritance Capitol Building, Albany, of property, for its sale and purchase, and for the renting andleasing and mortgaging of property; it decides the conditionsfor business contracts and for the hiring of labor; it enforcesnearly all the laws regarding crime and civil injuries betweenman and man; it legislates regarding the poor and the insane,and takes care of criminals convicted of serious offenses; itrequires the building and maintenance of roads and schools;it decides upon what conditio
History and government of the United States, for evening schools . ; it makes the __ laws for the inheritance Capitol Building, Albany, of property, for its sale and purchase, and for the renting andleasing and mortgaging of property; it decides the conditionsfor business contracts and for the hiring of labor; it enforcesnearly all the laws regarding crime and civil injuries betweenman and man; it legislates regarding the poor and the insane,and takes care of criminals convicted of serious offenses; itrequires the building and maintenance of roads and schools;it decides upon what conditions corporations may be estab-lished,— municipal, public, and private. The municipal cor-porations include cities and incorporated towns, villages, andboroughs. The public corporations include railroads and streetrailways, gas companies, and water companies, requiring rightsof way over land. The private corporations include fire andlife insurance companies and all companies engaged in busi-ness in accordance with charters granted to them by the 68 OUR CIVIL GOVERNMENT Our State Government is Unique.—In many respects ournational government is not unlike that of certain nations inEurope. European cities, too, are governed very much as areour American cities. The counties and parishes of Englandare not unlike those in various parts of the United to the American State governmeut, no government inEurope exactly or even closely corresponds. There was atime in the history of our country when many citizens feltthat they owed allegiance to their State rather than to theUnited States. It was this feeling that caused the great bodyof Southerners to support their leaders in the effort to estab-lish the Confederate States. Many Southerners did not be-lieve in slavery, but all of them believed in State the American scheme of government, counties and townsare little more than convenient forms for subdividing the Statefor purposes of local governme
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