1 Estimated value of all tangible property situated in each state. 2 Area now constituting West Virginia formed part of Virginia prior to 1870.

AVERAGE ANNUAL SALARIES OF TEACHERS, SUPERVISORS, AND PRINCIPALS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1921-22

AVERAGE ANNUAL SALARIES OF TEACHERS, SUPERVISORS, AND PRINCIPALS IN THE UNITED STATFS, 1921-22-Continued

CHAPTER XIX

THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

"We are facing difficult problems which we can only solve in a spirit of generous desire to act each for all and all for each."

-Theodore Roosevelt

The Nation Is Tied Together by Common Interests. Our differences in social life and in nationality are more than offset by our common interests and our common advantages. The nation is knit together in its interests. The people who live in cities depend on the farmers of the world for their food, while the farmers depend on the city workers for their manufactured products. The farmer, the miner, the manufacturer, and the wage earner join together to make the living for all. The channels of communication-railroads, telegraphs, telephones-bind together all the activities of the people in the different sections of our country.

There are also political ties which bind our people and our communities together. The nation is engaged in such activities as the protection of commerce, the construction of roads, and irrigation and drainage projects that concern all of the people. There is a common bond in the institutions of democracy which we all support, and a common patriotism toward the national government that has succeeded in holding together our democratically governed states in a national union.

The Powers of the National Government. In the United States, the sovereign power is vested in the people. The people have delegated in the national Constitution certain powers to the national government. All powers not thus delegated are "reserved to the states respectively or to the people."

Money, Weights, and Measures

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures.

Counterfeiting

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States.

Post Offices

To establish Post Offices and Post Roads.

Patents and Copyrights

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

Inferior Courts

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court.

Piracies and Felonies

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations.

War-Marque and Reprisal

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make rules concerning Captures on land and water.

Land and Naval Forces

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years.

To provide and maintain a Navy.

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces.

Militia

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.