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Title: Civil government of the United States and Wisconsin for common schools and high schools
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hewitt, W. G. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Educational publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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accused of an offence is assumed unless he is 11. State an imaginary case w^hen a Grand Jury would besummoned. 12. In what territory do the following courts have jurisdic-tion: Justices Courst, Police Court, Circuit Court, SupremeCourt. 13. Read Article VII of the State Constitution, and tell:a. What is the number of Supreme Court Justices, and their term of service. h. How vacancies are filled in the Supreme Court, and howa Judge may be removed ? 14. Why should circuit judges be elected for six years,Supreme Judges for ten, and other state officers for two only ? 15. What objection would there be to electing all Supremeand Circuit Judges for life, or good behavior ? 16. The Judicial Election is not at the time of the generalelection — is this a wise provision ? 17 What is the difterence between the work of a GrandJury, and a petit Jury ? au. POi mo STCR H.830 PIER JUDICIAL CIRCUITS WISCONSIN Slio»in$lhe population of the Slate by Counties -Census oC 1900 Total Population a.06S,(H2
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IV Elections To vote at general elections, requires that thevoter must have registered, and must either be a citi-zen of the United States, or have declared his in-tention to become such. And he further must haveresided in the State one year previous, and in theprecinct in which he votes, ten days. The follow-ing are excluded from suffrage: those who bet on theelection, those who are insane, or who have beenguilty of felony. Primary Elections There have been two systems of nominations andelections — one called the caucus-convention system,and the other the primary system. Under the caucus plan, the people met in theirvoting precincts, nominated the local officers andelected delegates to tlie county conventions. At thecounty conventions tlic delegates nominated tliecounty officers, and elected delegates to tlic Stateconventions. At the State conventions, State officerswere nominated, the j^hitform was prepared, anddelegates to the National Nominating Conventionswere chosen. Under the

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