ABERDEEN, Lord, the public out-
stripping government, 105, note. Absolute Rulers often favour specu lative writers on liberty, 126, et seq.
Absolutism, ever desirous of making judges dependent, 184.
Absolutists, whether monarchical or democratic, agree on unity of power, 122.
Abstainers from voting, see Elec- tion, &c.
Abstinents from voting, see Elec- tion, &c.
Abuse of Pardoning, 390, et seq. See Pardoning, abuse of. Measures proposed to remedy it, 401, et seq.
Acclamation, 362, 363.
Accumulative Constitutions, 131, note. Accusatorial Trial, 56. What it is, 180.
Adams, John, on Common Law, 174. Adams, John Quincy, on Civil Law, 175, note.
Address of British Merchants to Louis Napoleon, 43.
Administration of Justice, self-deve- lopment of, 176.
Administrative Judgments, 89. Advocate, his rights, 198. Necessary for freedom, ib. Ethics of the
advocate discussed, 199, et seq. Grave errors, 201. What is the advocate? ib. Licence, 203, note. Age of large Cities, 354.
Alexander, dragging Betis around Gaza, 173.
Alison, Sir Archibald, on Repudia- tion, 87.
Allegiance, American and English views, 221, and note. American Supreme Courts decide
on unconstitutionality of laws, 122. American Declaration of Independ- ence, entire, 450. American Liberty, 214. Is republican, and opinion of sign ers of declara-
tion of independence on monarchy, ib. Republican federalism, 215. United States compared with Ne- therlands, ib. Separation of Church and State, 216, et seq. Constitution of the United States has been called atheistical, 216, note. No nobility, 217. Equality, ib. et seq. His- torical progress and abstract rea- soning, 218, et seq. Boldness and wisdom of framers of constitution of the United States, ib. Popular cast of American government, 219. Voting by ballot, ib. Erroneous views regarding it, ib. Record of ayes and noes, 220. Executive can- not prorogue the legislature, ib. Free admission of states into the Union, and immigrants into the states, ib. Enacted constitutions, 221.
Americans have limited the frequency of meeting of the legislature, 145. Amyot; early translation of Plutarch, its influence on France, 334, note. Ancient and Modern States compared, 29, et seq.
Ancient and Modern Liberty, 28, et seq.
Anglican Liberty, 37, et seq. How we ascertain it, ib. Its chronology, 38. Why it is called thus, 39. Anglican tribe, 11.
Anglican type of Liberty, 244. Anti-corn-law league, 105.
Antiquity, difference between, and modern times, 321.
Appropriations, short, for army, 99. Short and definite, 116. Aristotle, 30. On Psephisma and Lesbian canon, 314.
Armenian term for liberty is self- sovereignty or self-government, 22, note.
Arms, right of bearing, 101. Army, oath on the constitution, 96, 97. Must not be deliberative bo- dies, 99. Subordinate to the legis- lature, 94, et seq. Standing army,
BACON'S, Lord, two political dicta, 8.
Bail, 61. Constitutional principle of it, 51.
Barrot, Odillon, opinion on two houses, 158.
Beaumont, de, on pardoning in the United States, 397.
Beccaria against pardoning power, 393.
Béchard, Ferdinand, on the municipal
laws of the republics of Switzer- land and the United States, 278, note. He uses in his French work the term "self-government," ib. Bentham; Obstetrix Animarum, 155. Tactics of legislative assemblies, ib. note. Dr. T. Cooper's opinion on it, ib., note. He is for judges sit- ting in legislature, 185, et seq. Béranger, his opinion on French penal trial, 59.
Bicameral system, 157, et seq. See
Bill of Rights, entire, 445. Blanc, Louis, 329, note. Body, meaning Person, 21, note. Bonaparte, General, on unity of power, 123, note.
Bonaparte, Jerome, 353.
British Merchants' Address to Louis Napoleon, 43.
British Minister on doubts on royal proclamations, 179, 180. Brougham, Lord; in his Political Philosophy on two Houses, 160. Against judges sitting in the Com- mons, 186. Opinion on licence of counsel, 199, note. Opinion on the former Germanic empire, 317, note.
Bunsen calls Book of Common Prayer an institution, 257.
Burke, what party is, 119. On power, 332.
Burton's Criminal Trials, 21, note. Butler, A. P., senator U. S., on Louis Napoleon, 378, note.
Bye-Laws, history of the word, 280,
note. Characteristic of self-govern- ment, 279. Lord Coke on them, 280.
CABINET Wars, 117, 118. Cæsar, Julius, 337. Cæsars, 335.
Cæsarean sovereignty, 336, note. Calhoun's work on Government, 221, note.
Capital, should it be allowed to leave a country, 78. Sent by immigrants to Ireland, 77, note. Brought into the United States by German im- migrants, ib.
Capital Cities, their influence in cen- tralized governments, 352, et seq. See Cities, capital.
Caroline's, Queen, trial, 309. Carey, M., on pardoning in United States, 396.
Caricatures, historical, 300. Cassation, Court of, 233.
Cassel, residence of Jerome Bonaparte, 353.
Chambord, Count. His letter, 349, note.
Censorship, stringent in England under Presbyterian government, 75. Centralization, 352, et seq. Influ- ence of Paris, ib. Brilliancy of centralism, ib. Age of large cities, 354. Their absorbing effect, ib.
Paris and London compared, ib. It can produce striking effects, 355. Napoleonic ideas, 537. Mistaking vociferous crowds for the people, 358. Louis Napoleon believed to have saved society, 359. Socialists feared in France, ib. Shocks extend over the whole country, 309. Centralism, see Centralization. Champ-de-Mars, 303, note. Chancellor, Lord, presiding officer of House of Lords, 149. Charter granted by Louis XVIII. of France, 477. That adopted in
1830, entire, ib. Chartists, petition of, 102, note. Chatham, for the restriction of power over revenue, 116, note. For triennial parliaments, 145. Opinion on trial by jury, 192. Said that a certain passage in Magna Charta was worth all the classics, 228. On unlimited power, 332. Chevalier, M., 357.
Christian Politics, by Sewell, 257, note.
Christianity, influences politics, 34. Conservative and revolutionary,
Cicero, definition of liberty, 13. On government, 30. Against pardon- ing power, 393.
Circuitous Elections in the middle ages, 142.
Cities, Capital. Their influence in centralized governments, 352, et seq. Age of large cities, 354. Cities of absorbing character belong to low periods, 354.
City-States of antiquity, 32, 134, et seq.
Civil Law, its effect on modern na- tions, 168, 175, note. Civil Liberty. Importance of the sub- ject in the present period, 1, et seq. Parliamentary, sneered at, 2. No boon of government, 3. Definitions of, 7, et seq. What is generally meant, 8. Every one desires liberty, 9. Is the noblest human work, 10. Distinction between freemen and non-slaves, 11. Definition of Roman lawyers, ib. Definition by Dr. Price, 12. Cicero's definition, 13. Greek idea of liberty, ib. Defini- tion in French Political Dictionary, 14. Definition by Tittman, 15. The rule of the majority, ib. Responsibility of rulers to the ruled, ib. Montesquieu's definition, 16. Paley's definition, 18. What it really consists in, 20, et seq.
Consists in guarantees, 24-26. Different systems of liberty, 24. Liberty taken for republic, 13 and 27. Ancient liberty, 28, et seq. Anglican liberty, see this term. Individual or personal liberty, 43. Bail, Penal Trial, Communion, Lo- comotion, Emigration, Liberty of Conscience, Property, Supremacy of the Law, Petition, Association, &c., see under these heads. what it consists, proved by con- traries, 222, et seq. The student of political philosophy ought to compare modern and ancient liberty, and liberty with Asiatic politics, 223. Charles II. and James II. hostile to free com- munion, so Louis Napoleon, 225. Absolutists want perfect control over public funds, ib. Absolu- tists want the army independent of the legislature, ib. Absolutists do not want the law to be supreme, 227. Absolutists abhor division of power, ib. They are hostile to self-government (Robespierre), 228. They are against lawful courts, ib. They arrogate right of de- portation, ib. Chatham said that a certain passage in Magna Charta was worth all the classics, 228. All despots disrelish publicity, 229. Despots do not allow the initiative to legislature, 230. Absolutists separate government from people, ib. They are against trial by jury, 230. They are hostile to fair and regular trials for treason, ib. Declaration of Independence an index of most of the important guarantees of liberty, 231. Will it spread, or are only few nations fit for it? 245, et seq. See Institu- tion. Liberty requires union, 296. Many changes in England and United States, yet conservative, 302. Fêtes on the Champ-de-Mars, 303, note. Spirit of conquest. Navy not dangerous to it, 95. Civil List, British, history of, 116. Claqueurs, 367. Clepsydra, 111, note. Clubs, French, 103. Codification, 170.
Coffee-Houses interfered with by Charles II. and James II., 225. Coke, Sir Edmund, quoted, 280. Collard, Royer, dictum on unre- strained sovereignty of people, 236.
Colonization society, 104.
Common Law, 166, et seq. Living like a common living language, 168. Interpretation, 169. Codification, 170. Precedent, 172. Liberty stands in need of it, ib. Absurdity of executive precedents, 173. Con- tinental jurists on civil and com- mon law, 174. John Adams on com- mon law, ib. John Quincy Adams on it, 175, note. See Story, Codifi- cation, Interpretation, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Locke, Civil Law, and Pius IV. Assimilative power of common law, 175. Communion, Liberty of, 71, et seq. Primordial right, ib. Especially pointed out by the constitution of the United States, 72. In England by common law, 73.
Communism, what it is, 85, note. Conciliation, Courts of, 235. Conclamatory character of middle ages, 363.
Confederation, Articles of, see Articles of Confederation.
Confession in inquisitorial trial, 409. Confiscation, 84, also French charter in Appendix. Conflicting laws, 132.
Conquest, spirit of, ruinous to liberty,
Conscience, Liberty of, 80, et seq. American constitutions regulating it, 80. Great necessity at present,
82. Conscientia, De, by Sanderson, see Sanderson.
Constitution. Great number of con- stitutions in modern times, 1. Constitution of the U. S. entire, 464. The present imperial of France, 500. Of the French republic of 1848, entire, 486.
Constitutions, written or enacted and accumulative, 131, note. Constitutions. Their importance de- pends on institutions, 299. Classi- fication of them, 500, et seq. Contrat Social, 333, see Rousseau. Co-operative government, Gallican
aversion to it, 243, note. Corday, Charlotte, 334, note. Corruption of Blood in England, 84. Abolition by A merican constitution, ib.
Counsel, see Advocate.
Country, the name of a French paper.
Opinion of the editor, 371, note. Coup d'Etat, vote on it in France, 387. Court of Cassation, 233.
Courts of Conciliation, 235.
Courts of Justice separated from ad-
Daru, History of Venice, 143, note. Declaration of Independence, an index of most of the guarantees of liberty, 231. Declaration of Rights, or Bill of Rights, entire, 445.
Declaration of Independence of the United States, entire, 450. Defence, in inquisitorial trial, 410. Demagogues, 298.
Democracy, absolute, 328.
Democratic and Social Republic, 238. Democratic Equality, often avowed by imperatorial sovereign, 350. Demosthenes mentions pardoning power of Athenian democracy, 392. Deportation, right of, arrogated by despots, 228.
Deputative Government in middle ages, 133, et seq.
Despotism, Daniel Webster on it, 124, et seq. Its longevity, 124, note. Its helplessness, 127, note.
Despots divest themselves of pardon- ing power, 391, et seq.
De Witt, Netherlandish citizen, 331. Dictators, generally rise by popular power, 331.
Diefenbach, Comparative Dictionary of the Gothic language, &c., 22,
Direct Elections, 141, and Paper on Elections in Appendix. Disqualifications, difficulty of remov- ing them in free countries, 83. Diversity of men not so great as uni- formity, 249, et seq.
Division of power, Madison on it, 123. Rousseau against it, 122. Unity of power, Gallican type, 122, et seq. Monarchs hostile to it, ib. French
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