EBRINGTON, Lord, conversation with Napoleon, i. 304, note. Education, cannot alone secure liberty, i. 323.
Edward, Magna Charta of king, ii. 193.
Elections, direct and double, i.
191. Circuitous in middle ages, i. 192. Executive influ- encing them, i. 193. Election managers, i. 193. Elections and election statistics, ii. 123 and seq. Cromwell's act of 1656, ii. 123 and 129. People's Elect," ii. 124. ditions necessary to make ge- neral votes valid, ii. 124 and seq. Question must be fairly before the people, ibid. Elec- tions must be properly organ- ized, ii. 125. Election judges, ibid. Election returns not pass through executive, ibid. and sequ. Person on whom judg- ment is passed ought to be in position to abide by the result, ii. 126. Two things must be really before the people, ibid. The power on whom judgment is passed must not first com- mit the crime and then ask for a vote, ii. 126 and seq. Pre- sidential election in United States, ii. 130 and note. Re- sults of election statistics, ii. 131. The more exclusive the electoral privilege the less ab- stain from voting, ibid. When qualified voters exceed six hundred, at least twenty-five per centum abstain, ibid. The larger the number the more abstain, ibid. When three candidates, larger vote, ibid. Number of votes does not ne- cessarily indicate the interest taken in the election, ibid. If qualified voters exceed several thousands, one-half generally vote; two-thirds show great
interest; three-fourths indi- cate excitement, ii. 131 and sequ. Voting on men draws most votes, ii. 132. Votes of yes or no, no meaning in cen- tralized and large countries, ibid. Instances, ibid. and sequ. Number of votes given in Athens, ii. 133. Ostracism, ibid. Why so many abstained from voting in Athens, ii. 134. Number of votes given in France, ii. 135 and sequ. Number of votes given in Eng- land, ibid. and sequ. Votes polled in Massachusetts, ii. 136 and sequ. In South Caro- lina, ii. 137. In Connecticut, ibid. Votes polled in United States at presidential elections and proportion of abstainers, ii. 138 and sequ. Manner of estimating number of qualified voters, ibid. French vote on coup d'état, ii. 139. Mr. Per- signy's estimate of qualified voters in France, ii. 140. Col. Espinasse's statement of num- ber of imprisoned Frenchmen, ibid. No reliance to be placed on the vote on coup d'état, ii. 141. Vote on establishing the French empire, ii. 141 and sequ. Money-bribery does not exist, but intimidation, ii. 143. Vote on French president, ii. 143, note. Election per salt- um, ii. 302. Eleutheros, derivation, i. 49, note.
Emigration, Right of, i. 115 and
Enacted Constitutions, i. 178, note.
England, its early nationaliza-
tion, i. 64. Its historical good luck, i. 65 and note. Resents papal interference, i. 76. Is the mother of republics, ii. 23. Is a royal republic, ii. 53.
Former penal laws of England sanguinary, but the penal trial not, ii. 169. Number of votes polled in, ii. 135 and sequ. English, a jural people, ii. 169. Enthusiasm, can it secure liberty? i. 323.
Epistolary Communion, i. 110. Interfered with on the Euro- pean continent, i. 111. Late French interference with this right, i. 111. Equality. Napoleon's distinction between equality and liberty, i. 40. As a political element in Greece, i. 62. Often avowed by arbitrary power, ii. 94. Equality and uniformity con- founded, i. 304. Constitutes the chief idea of Gallican li- berty, i. 301. Napoleon's view of it, i. 306. Espinasse's, Colonel, estimate of imprisoned Frenchmen at the time of the vote on coup d'état, ii. 140. Everett, Edward, letter to Mr. Crampton, i. 117. Words on inability of the French to es- tablish governments in foreign parts, ii. 22.
Every man's house his castle, i. 77.
Evidence, Laws of, in inquisitorial
trial. See Inquisitorial Trial. Ex-post facto Laws, i. 128. Executive Judgments, i. 129. Executive Branch, what it has the right to do, i. 176. French view, i. 177, note. Constitu- tion of United States, i. 177. Expatriation, forcible. See De- portation.
Extra Courts of justice, i. 129. Declaration of Independence on them, i. 130.
FACTION, i. 165. Fashion, unanimity of, ii. 112. Fashions, political, prevented by
Filangieri on pardoning power, ii. 146.
Forsyth, History of Trial by Jury, i. 251.
Foster, Sir M., of Homicide, i. 133, note.
Fox, Charles, libel bill, i. 254. France, number of votes polled in, ii. 135 and sequ. Francis, Chronicles, &c. of stock exchange, i. 161.
Franklin, Dr., opinion on two houses, i. 211, note. Frederic of Prussia on multitudes
submitting to one, ii. 73. Com- plaints of English changes, ii. 74.
Free, etymology of the word, i. 48, note. The word is con- nected with friede, peace, i. 53, note. Fridon, in old Saxon, meant to Protect, ibid. God alone truly free, i. 48. Freedom, derivation of the word, i. 48, note; and note to, i. 53. Freedom (freithum) in German means a barony, i. 49, note. Freemen and Non-Slaves, i. 37. Freiligrath, German poet, i. 57, note.
Freithum, see freedom. French Charters, of Louis XVIII. and that of 1830 entire, ii. 268. French Republic of 1848, consti- tution of, entire, ii. 281. Frequency of Parliament, British Declaration of Rights on it, i.
Fridon, old Saxon, to protect, is of the same root with free, i. 53, note.
Frihals or Frijhals, i. 50, note. Fronto, ii. 77, note. Funds, public, under the legisla- ture, i. 158.
GALLICAN Liberty, i. 298 and sequ. What it consists in, ibid. Court of cassation, i. 299. Justice of the peace, and courts of conciliation, i. 300. Senate, i. 301. Idea of equality, real French liberty, i. 301. Not institutional, i. 302. Royer Collard's dictum, i. 303. Equality and unifor- mity confounded, i. 304.- Strange instance of interfer- ence, ibid, note. Republique Democratique et Sociale, i. 305. Napoleon's view of equa- lity, i. 306. Girardin's con- ception of one power, i. 307. Making the vote sole basis of liberty, i. 308. Monastic orders founded on election, i. 309. Unicameral system, i. 310. Gallican aversion to co- operative government, i. 311, note. French derision of par- liamentary government, i. 312. National guards, i. 313. An- glican liberty is opposed, be- cause not original with French, i. 317.
General Votes of Yes or No, ii.
123 and sequ. See Elections. General Warrants, i. 79. Mans- field on them, i. 80. Green- leaf on them, i. 81. Georgian Term for liberty, i. 51,
Girardin, against division of pow- er, i. 167. Conception of one power, i. 307. Universal suf- frage is the republic, ii. 55. Gladstone's pamphlet on Neapo-
litan trials for treason, i. 107. Gottfried, woman who poisoned above thirty persons, i. 259 and sequ.
Great Cities, &c., by Vaughn, ii. 99, note.
Great Charter of King John, en-
tire, ii. 178 and sequ. Greeks, idea of liberty, i. 39. Greenleaf on warrants, i. 81. Grimm, German Dictionary, i. 51,
Grimke, Considerations upon the Nature and Tendency of Free Institutions, i. 286, note. Guards, National, i. 143. Guizot, representative of parlia- mentary government in France, i. 167. Essays on History of France, i. 173. His opinion on absolutism, i. 172. History of the Origin of Representative Governments, i. 185, note. On elections in monasteries, i. 309.
HABEAS Corpus Act, i. 82. Constitution of the United States on the subject, i. 83. Alexander Hamilton on it, i. 83. Suspension of, in Eng- land, i. 130; in the United States, i. 131. Habeas Cor- pus Act, entire, ii. 209. Hallam, on trial by jury, i. 256. Against unanimity of juries, ibid. On English equality, ii.
45, note. Haller, Restoration of Political Science, ii. 47, note. Hamilton, Gerard; parliament- ary logic, i. 208, note. Dr. Thomas Cooper's opinion on it, ibid.
Harris, proposes a general veto- power, ii. 60, note. Hatsell's Precedents, i. 202. Herodotus, ii. 82.
High Treason, i. 100 and sequ. American definition, i. 101. Chief-Justice Marshall, i. 102. Historical course of the law, i. 103, sequ. Peculiar import- ance of trial, i. 100, seq. 105.
Necessary requisites of a good trial for high treason, i. 105. American trial, i. 107. Historical Progress, i. 281 and
Historical Caricatures, ii. 35.
Hollow Institutions, their great danger, ii. 37.
Holmes, proposes one-hour rule, i. 155, note.
Hungary, former constitution, ii.
Commenced liberty was at Julius Cæsar,
IMPERATORIAL Sovereignty, ii. 77 and sequ. in Rome when an end, ii. 78. ii. 79. Their elections, ii. 80, and Paper on Elections in Ap- pendix. Mr. Troplong's view of victorious democracy in Rome in the emperors, ii. 81. Epitaph of Massaniello, ii. 81. Report of the senatorial com- mittee written by Mr. Trop- long, on changing the republic into an empire, see Appendix, No. xiv. Dajoces, ii. 82. Mongolian view, ii. 83. Names and words of no importance, ii. 84. Attempts at intellect- ual and moral consistency, ii. | 85. Mr. Michel's, French ad- vocate, view that people can- not violate the constitution, ii. 86. Peuple-Roi, ii. 87. Work- ingmen, not privileged, ii. 88 and note. Ouvriers, ibid. Vox Populi Vox Dei, ii. 89 and 107 and sequ. Source of impera- torial sovereignty is not what it is pretended to be, ii. 90. The Cæsar always exists before he is proclaimed as such, ii. 92. His election futile, ii. 93. Ar- bitrary power recommends it- self to popular favor by avow- ing democratic equality, ii. 94.
Imperatorial sovereignty plau- sible, ii. 95.
Imperial Constitution of France, ii. 301.
Impressment of Seamen, i. 83. New law, i. 84.
Incriminating one's self, i. 93. Indemnity, Acts of, for British ministers, i. 133. Instances, i. 134, note. How Americans get along without them, ibid. Independence of the Judge, i. 241 and sequ. Consists in inde- pendence of position as to fixed. ness and amount of salary, i. 247. In proper appointment and not elective, i. 241. (Po- litical judges, i. 243.) Ought judges to sit in the legislature? i. 244 and sequ. In appoint- ment for a long period, i. 247. Constitution of United States on independence of judges, i. 248. It consists in accusa- torial and public trial, i. 246 and sequ. Immovability, i.
249. French constitution of 1848 decreed appointment for life. See the Constitution in Appendix.
Independence of the Judiciary, i. 220 and sequ. View of British
minister on it, i. 237. Independence, Declaration of, of the United States, entire, ii. 228.
Individual Liberty, i. 77. Individual Property, i. 122 and sequ.
Initiative, Right of, i. 197.
French legislative corps de- prived of it, i. 197. Ministers had it in France under the charters. Despots do not al- low it to the legislature, i. 296. Inquisitorial Trial, i. 94, 169, 239 and sequ. English penal laws formerly sanguinary, but trial not, ii. 169. The inquiring judge reports on the case, ii.
170. He is not properly re- stricted, ibid. No regular in- dictment, ibid. Prisoner is urged to confess; no physical torture, but psychical, ii. 171. No cross-examination of wit- nesses, ibid. Justice and po- lice are mixed, ibid. Sorrow- ful defence, ibid. Punishment proportioned according to evi- dence, ii. 172. Logic of trial and conviction, ii. 172 and sequ. Number of witnesses, of oaths, &c., ii. 173 and 174. Torture still exists in the world, ii. 176, note. It may return in some countries, ii. 176. In- deed it has in Naples, ibid. Insecurity of Uninstitutional States ii. 64 and sequ. Institution, i. 320 and sequ. alone can secure liberty, i. 322 and sequ. Definition of insti- tution, i. 324. Characteristics, i. 325 and 338. Single but great laws called institutions, i. 325. Instances of institu- tions, i. 326. Derivation of the word, i. 327. Grown and enacted institutions, i. 328. Dr. Arnold's definition, i. 329. Difference between institute and institution, i. 331, note. Perpetuity of institution, i. 331. Brilliant periods without institution, i. 332. Neither Greeks nor Romans had words for institution, i. 333. Reason why, i. 334. Modern tendency to abstract, i. 334, note. Christian Politics, by Sewell, i. 337, note. The opposite of institution, i. 339. Vicious institutions, i. 340 and sequ. Strength of institutions, i. 341. Institutional tribes, i. 342. Louis Napoleon calls himself an institutor, i. 346. Hollow, effete institutions, i. 347. They serve sometimes as bridges, i. VOL. II.-31
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