Eight Lectures Delivered Before the Law Department of Howard University

L E C T U R E V I .

GOVERNMENT.

is the expressed will of a government,

by which its subjects are compelled to regulate

their conduct. As it is derived from and can be

amended, repealed, suspended, or enforced only

by government, I projiose to offer to you some

observations upon government itself.

Government may be said to be that power and

its exercise which regulates and controls the con

duct and affairs of a given people, state,'or nation,

and includes the working machinery and instru

mentalities for carrying it on.

All government is essentially one and the same.

Any apparent variety is due solely to the form

and agencies employed for working its processes

and producing its ends. Whether these are one

man, with limitless powers, a constitutional mon

archy and parliament, a magistrate and congress,

or a pure democracy, the thing accomplished is

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