Excerpt from A Hand-Book of Politics for 1872: Being a Record of Important Political Action, National and State, From July 15, 1870, to July 15, 1872 The chapters containing the actual changes recently made in State Constitutions, and those proposed in the last Congress and the present to the National Constitution by those most familiar with its practical Operation, will engage attention. The former indicates the new necessities Of State life; the latter is a curious illustration of the variety of view which able men entertain of the need of further amendment of our common charter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.