Prevents cen- tralization, ibid. Is of substan- tive value, i. 183. Trustees feel their responsibility, i. 185. Necessity of union of estates into a national government, i. 186. General representative government necessary besides local self-government, i. 187. Basis of representation, i. 188. Direct and double elections, i. 191. Necessary rules and principles, i. 192. Frequency of parliament, i. 196. Pro- tection of members, i. 196. Parliamentary law and usage, i. 199 and sequ. Republic, what does it consist in, with reference to Mor- mons, i. 121. Republic, French, the constitu- tion of 1848 entire, ii. 281. Repudiation, i. 126. Sir A. Ali- son on it, i. 127, note. Re- futed, ibid. Responsible Ministers, i. 175 and sequ.
Responsibility, personal, of offi- cers. See officers personally responsible.
Revolutions, unavoidable before liberty can be established in monarchies, ii. 65. Reward of Prosecutors, i. 98. Robespierre, dictum as to what government ought to be, i. 294. Read Rousseau daily, ii. 75, note.
Romans refusing to enlist, ope- rated like English refusal of supplies, i. 161. Endeavor to give moral consistency to decla- rations of war, ii. 84, note. Roman Emperor, absolute, why, i. 61.
Rome perishing of political bank- ruptcy, i. 184. Romilly, Sir Samuel, against judges asking prisoners, i. 93. Intention of proposing a bill
of compensation, i. 98. On lawyers, i. 265, note. Against judges sitting in the commons, i. 244. On evil effects of want of parliamentary rules in French constituent assemblies, i. 205.
Rousseau against division of power, i. 166. Contrat So- cial, ii. 75. Against division of power, ibid. His influence on French revolution, ibid. Rosseauism, see Rosseau. Russell, Lord John. History of English Government and Con- stitution i. 46, note. A senti- ment of his, i. 79.
SANDERSON, de Conscientia, on vox populi vox Dei, ii. 110, note.
Sardanapalus, inscription on his tomb of, ii. 33. Say, Mr., ii. 111.
Schmidt, I. J. Translation of
Ssanang, &c., ii. 83, and note. Scott, General Winfield. His ac- count of the offer in Mexico, to assume the government, ii. 15, note.
Security, not necessarily liberty, i. 44.
Self-Accusation in China, i. 96. Self-Determination, i. 38. Self-Development of administra- tion of justice, i. 236 and sequ. Self-Government. Term used by Béchard. See Béchard. Self-Government, local. See Local Self-Government. Self-Government and Autonomy. The two words compared, i. 51, note.
Self-Government. The Anglican tribe alone has the word, i. 29. History of the term, i. 267,
ganic and institutional, i. 271. It protects individuality, ibid. Anecdote of William Pitt, re- lated by duke of Wellington, i. 272. Opposite to apathy, i. 273. Is not weak, ibid. With- out it, danger that govern- ment forgets its true ends, i. 274. Propter vitam vivendi perdere causas, ibid. De Tocqueville on inability of French to rule themselves, although they have had so many revolutions, i. 275. stitutional self-government, i. 349 and sequ. Local self- government, i. 353. By-laws, important and characteristic of self-government, i. 353 and sequ. Essential effects of in- stitutional self-government, ii. 13 and sequ. Love of insti- tutions, ii. 14. It makes obedience easy, ii. 17. English revolution left most institu- tions untouched, ii. 20. For- mation of government in Ore- gon, ii. 21. Inability of the French to establish govern- ments, ii. 22. Why the Dutch did not establish governments in foreign parts, ii. 23, note. England the mother of repub- lics, ii. 23. Assimilative power of institutional self-govern- ment, ii. 24 and sequ. Sta- bility of this government, ii. 25. Napoleon, quoted, ii. 26, note. Political fashions prevented by it, ii. 26. Liberty a thing that grows in institu- tions, ii. 27. Louis Napoleon's saying that liberty does not found states, ii. 28. Dangers of institutional self-govern- ment, ii. 29 and sequ. Self- government must always be adequate to the executive, ii. 30. Liberty requires union, ii. 30. Demagogues, ii. 33.
Importance of constitution de- pends on institutions, ii. 34. Love of effete institutions, ii. 35. Advantages of institu- tional government, ii. 43 sequ. High meaning of the term people, under such govern- ment, ii. 44. It breaks the shocks which occur in central- ized countries, ii. 46. Insti- tutional self-government con- centrates the attention of the people on domestic matters, ii. 49. Patience learned by it, ii. 51. It is the only government which prevents the growth of too much power, ii. 57 and sequ. Multiplied veto no safe- guard, ii. 58. It causes lon- gevity of states, ii. 61 and sequ. It makes wealth and liberty compatible, ii. 62. In- security of uninstitutional states, ii. 64 and sequ. Autonomy. Self-Incrimination, i. 93. Self-Taxation, i. 125. Senate, French, i. 301. Russian, ibid.
Senatus Consultum, on the French
empire to be erected, ii. 343. Sending for persons and papers, i. 203.
Septennial Bill, i. 195. Sewell, Christian Politics, i. 337,
Shakers, i. 145, note. Shakspeare on pardoning, ii. 150.
Sheriff, personally responsible, i. 132.
Sidney, Algernon, i. 44. Siege, State of, i. 130. Silence, Liberty of, i. 114. Smith, Joseph, founder of mor- mons, i. 345.
Smith, T. Tomlin, on local self-
government, 351, note. Socialists, Fear of, in France, ii. 105.
Socrates's favorite Saying, ii. 27, | Supplies, in England, i. 161.
Soldiers, Quartering of, i. 135 and sequ.
South Carolina, number of votes polled, ii. 137. Sovereign, every Frenchman de- clared to be one, i. 322, note. Sovereignty, what it consists in,
i. 168. Sovereignty, Imperatorial, ii. 77 and sequ.
Sparta, why preferred by ancient philosophers, ii. 67. Speaker, i. 199 and sequ. Sprenger's Malleus Meleficarum, ii. 113.
Ssanang Ssetsen Changsaidshi, translated by I. J. Schmidt, ii. 83 and note.
Standing Armies, i. 137. Con- stitution of the United States, ibid. Declaration of Independ- ence on them, i. 138. Inju- rious spirit they engender, i. 139 and sequ. Short appropria- tions, i. 141. Ought they to have the right to vote? i. 141. Must not be deliberative bo- dies, i. 141.
State, meaning of the word, when England was a republic, i. 56, note.
State of Siege, i. 130.
St. Just, ii. 31; ii. 60, note. Story, Judge, on Treason, i. 102.
On Property, i. 125, note. Commentary on the Const. of United States, i. 204. Opi- nion on the importance of par- liamentary usage, &c., i. 209. On Codification, i. 225. Con- tributions to Encyclopædia Americana, i. 232. Strictly abstained from politics, when judge, i. 245.
Sweden, four estates, i. 312. Switzerland, i. 74. Supremacy of the Law, i. 128 and sequ.
Supreme Courts, American; de- cide on unconstitutionality of laws, i. 168.
Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act in England, i. 130.
TAXATION, i. 122 and sequ., i. 158 and sequ. Federalist on it, ibid.
Test-Oaths in England, i. 121. Theo democratic government of Mormons, i. 121.
Three Houses or more, mischief of, i. 213.
Tittman, F. W., Grecian Polities, i. 41.
Tocqueville, De, opinion that the French always look toward the central government, although they change it so often, i. 275. On Pardoning in United States, ii. 151. Townsend's History of House of Commons, i. 202. Modern State Trials, i. 264, note. Treason. Absolutists against a fair and regular trial for treason, i. 297.
Trench, on Proverbs, ii. 116. Trial by Jury, i. 250 and sequ. Division of judicial labor, ibid. Guarantee of liberty, ibid. Best school for the citizen. Doubts on its benefits, i. 251. Chatham's opinion, i. 251. Declaration of Independence on it, ibid. The advantages of it, enumerated, i. 252. Ju- ries of experts, i. 252, note. Hallam on it, i. 256. Against unanimity, ibid. To Locke, i. 258. Absolutists against it, i. 297.
Tribune, Roman; his vetitive power, i. 218.
Troplong, his opinion that de-
mocracy in Rome victorious in the emperors, ii. 81. Report on petitions to change the re-
UNANIMITY of Juries, Hallam against it, i. 256. Locke, like- wise, i. 258. Unanimity no sign that Vox Populi Vox Dei, ii. 111. Unicameral System. Its danger, i. 210. Part of Gallican liber- ty, i. 310.
Uniformity of men greater than their diversity, i. 318 and sequ.
Uninstitutional Multitude, ii. 70. Uninstitutional States, their in- security, ii. 64 and sequ. Unity of Power dazzles, i. 169. Gallican type, i. 167 and sequ. United States, constitution of, entire, ii. 249.
Universal Suffrage believed to constitute the republic, ii. 55. Upper House, principles on which it may be formed, i. 214.
VALLETTE, on the Formation of Laws and Parliamentary Pro- cedure in France, England, United States, Belgium, &c. &c., i. 206, note.
Vaughn, Age of Great Cities, &c., ii. 99, note.
Verdicts ought to be definite, i.
Our so-called veto power is no real one, i. 218. Provision of American Constitution regard- ing it, i. 218. Multiplied and mutual, no safeguard of liber- ty, ii. 58. Vice-President of United States is president of U. S. senate, i. 201.
Villêle, French minister, carried French septennial bill, i. 195. Vincke, Account of Internal Ad- ministration of Great Britain. See Niebuhr. Vociferous crowds mistaken for the people, ii. 104. Votants and Voters; term justi- fied, ii. 138, note.
Vote, sole basis of liberty, an error, i. 308.
Votes, General, of Yes or No, ii. 123 and sequ. See Elec-
Vox Populi Vox Dei, ii. 89 and 107 and sequ. An imposing maxim, ii. 107. Periods when an impulse from on high seems to be given, ii. 108. Crusades, ii. 109. Where the maxim originated, ii. 110. Acclama- tion, ii. 110. Conclamatory character of the middle ages, ii. 110. Unanimity no proof, ii. 111. Petition of French manufacturers against calico, ii. 111. Unanimity of fashion, ii. 112. Unanimity in Witch trials, ii. 113. Two nations clamoring for war against each other, ii. 114. Unanimity often proceeds from the worst pas- sions, ii. 114. Governments by paid applauders or cla- queurs, ii. 115. Case of pro-
verbs, ii. 116. Pope Pius IX. calls Italian rising a vox Dei, ii. 116. Vox Populi Vox Dei now especially appealed to in France, ii. 117. It is no canon or test in politics, ii. 119.
Wardlaw, Judge, "Opinion," i. 235.
WAR, Power of Declaring, i. 162. | Western History, want of a pro- In England and in United per term, i. 30, note. States, ibid. Cabinet wars, i. | Westphalia, Kingdom of, ii. 98. 163. William III., his saying on liber- ty of conscience, i. 119. not create public debt, i. 161. Winthrop, Robert C., states when publicity first establish- ed by law, i. 154, note. On inconvenience and advantages of publicity, i. 155, note. Witch Trials, unanimity on, ii.
Warrants, General. See General Warrants.
Wharton, Francis, State Trials of
the United States, i. 106. Wealth necessary for modern civilization and liberty, ii. 62. Webster, Daniel, great passage on Division of Power, i. 169 and sequ. Webster's Works, i. 286, note. Wellington, relates an anecdote of William Pitt, regarding po- litical self-reliance, i. 272. Does not strive for a sovereign- ty, ii. 14.
Words, history of important, i. 327, note.
Writing, instead of Publicity, Mr. Raikes on it, i. 150, note. Written Constitutions, i. 178,
YES or No, general Votes of, ii. 123 and sequ. See Elections.
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