The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19

-o | hCa J = J teuch, keeping on their hats, and their oath ends with the words, "so help me Jehovah" A Mohammedan is sworn on the Koran.
 Is it necessary for student to be high school graduate before he enters college?
 Not if he has pursued the requisite studies to meet the requirements for entrance. Different institutions have different standards of matriculation. (
 Please name some Of the principal works written by authors before they were twenty years of age.
 Shelly wrote Queen Nab" at eight cen; Bryant wrote 'Thanatopsis' at nineteen; Burns wrote songs at the age of ten; everything Chatterton wrote was before he was seventeen; Tasso wrote "Rinaldo" at seventeen; Hugo issued his first volume of poems when he was twenty; Hlizabeth Barrett Browning produced "An Essay on Mind" and other poems at eighteen; e. F. R. James wrote his String of Pearls" at seventeen: Mrs. Hemans published her first volume of poems at fourteen; Boucicault wrote his first play at nineteen. There are no doubt many others to add to this list.
 Has the suprsme court ever defined the national constitution as to tho right of woman suffraee7 @
 The court has construed the opera tion of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution on woman suffrage. That appointment, adopted in 1868, de- clared that "all persons born or nat uralzed in the United States are citi- zens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside' and that mo state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States" This amendment to the con stitution YVES adopted to protect the right of negroes to vote, but it was contended by some that it conferred the right equally on women as citizens of the United States. Several women in different states voted or offered to vote, and the question of their right under the fourteenth amendment final ly came before the supreme court. The. vote of Mrs. Virginia L. Minor was refused in St. Louis, and she brought suit against the inspectors of election. The case was decided against her in the circuit court of the county and the supreme court of Missouri. She then carried 1t to- the supreme court of the United States Minor yer sus Happensett Set aL, October term, 1874. The case was argued by her husband, Francis Minor. The decision was delivered by Chief Justice Waite March %, 1875, and was in brief: 4The national constitution does not define the privileges and inmunities of citi- zens. The United States has no voters of It's own creation. The constitution does not confer the right of suffrage upon, any one, but the franchise must be regulated by the states. The four teenth amendment does not add to the privileges and immunities of a citizen; 1t simply furnishes an additional guar antee to protect those he already has. Before the passage of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments the states had the power to disfranchise on ac- count of race or color. These amend ments, ratified by the states, simply forbade that discrimination, but did not forbid that against sex. -" Be ing unanimously of the opinion that the constitution of the United States does not confer the right of suffrage upon any one and that the constitu- ton and laws of the several states which commit that important trust to men alone are not necessarily void, we affirm the judgment of the court be. low, This left the question of wo- man suffrage to the several states.
 A says that Italy did not declare war on Germany; B says she did.
 Italy declared war on Germany in August, 1916.
 Did President Grants term hold over, or did any president occupy tine chair longer than four or eight years7
 No president has ever held over day longer than his constitutional term.
 What gro the eight points in law?
 They arc, according to an old saying, attributed to Mr. selwyn, former candidate for the chamberlaincy of the city of London; 1, good cause; ?, good purse; 8, an honest and skillful attorney; 4, good evidence; 5. able counsel; 6, an upright judge; 2. an intelligent jury; 8. good luck.
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