of capital carried off by emigrants, 96. Enacted or written constitutions, 270. England, her service in the cause of freedom, 19 and sequ. Early sepa- ration of Justice from Administra- tion, 20, note. Her liberty founda- tion of ours, 20, 21. Many fortunate circumstances in her history, 50 and note; becomes the model of liberty for the continent, 51. English, a peculiarly jural nation, 457.
Enlightened absolutism not the best government, 26.
Enthusiasm no basis of liberty, 303. Epistolary communism, 90 and sequ. Equality and Code Napoleon, the es- sence of political civilization, 19; confounded with liberty, 30. More equality in Asia than in the United States, 30 and note; French seek for liberty in it, 285, 286 and sequ; difficult to see what French mean by it, 289.
Erskine, Lord, opinion on trial by jury, 236.
Ethics of the Advocate, 244 and sequ. Everett, Edward, opinion on import- ance of parliamentary law and pro- cedure, 193; on French in Canada, and inability of the French to esta- blish governments in foreign parts, 335.
Every man's house is his castle, 61 and sequ. How it developed itself, Possessing still full vitality,
ibid. Executive, must have a warrant for what it does, 164.
Ex post facto elections. See Impera- torial Sovereignty and 419.
Ex post facto laws, 109.
Ferrers, George, member of parlia- ment, released from arrest in 1543, p. 185.
Fête of the Eagles, 279. Feudal system, 49.
Feuerbach, Manual of the Common German Penal Law, 242, note. Fijians take more powder to kill a large man, 461.
Forchhammer on the Cyclopian walls, 360, note.
Foster, Discourse of Homicide, 112,
Fox, Charles, Bill on Libel, 239,
Framers of American Constitution, their character, 266.
Francis, Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange, 151. Franklin, Dr., in favor of one house of legislature, 198.
Frederic II., concerning petitions, 126; why should many submit to one? 377.
Free Press, first in Netherlands, 89. Constitution of United States dis- tinctly establishes freedom of the press, 90. Prohibited by republi- can government, 94. Freedom, Etymology and distinction from liberty, 37 and sequ, note. Freedom of Action, desired by all men, 25; even by despots, ibid. Freemen, subjects and slaves, 26. French Constitution of 1793, p. 536; of 1851, p. 581. French Charters, of Louis XVIII. and of the year 1830, p. 550 and sequ. French interference, 256. French, mistake source of power for foundation of freedom, 200 and
French idea of liberty and the height of civilization, 162, note.
French Senate, report of, on petitions to change the republic into an em- pire, 594.
French Republic of 1848, Constitu- tion of, 560.
French republicanism strives chiefly for equality, 19.
FABRIK-GERICHTE. See Manufac- Fronto, Letter to Marcus Aurelius,
tory Courts, 234, note.
Fashion, though unanimous, not vox populi vox Dei, 409. Federalism, characterizes American liberty, 264. French hatred of it, 293, note.
GALLICAN Liberty, 283 and sequ. Court of cassation, ibid. French senate, 285. Sought in equality, ibid. French seek for self-govern-
HABEAS CORPUS, 66; act, Charles
II., ibid; Constitution of United States prohibits its suspension, 67; allows it under certain circumstan- ces, ibid; habeas corpus act, in full, 489 and sequ.
Hale, Ch. Justice, on misstating au- thorities, 248.
Hallam, on unanimity of juries, 240. Haller, restoration of political sci- ence, 356, note.
Hamilton, W. Gerard, parliamentary logic, 195.
Hamilton, Sir William, on origin of vox populi vox Dei, 407, note. Hammersly, Thomas, banker through whom George IV. and his brothers borrowed Dutch money, 107, note. Hampden, 148. Memorials of John Hampden, by Lord Nugent, 149. Harris, Oceana, considered mere ve- toing power in the people, chief protection of liberty, 366.
Helots and Spartans, 26.
Henry VIII., even he pays outward respect to law, 20, note.
Hesiod, quoted by Sir Wm. Hamil- ton as to origin of vox populi vox Dei, 407, note.
High treason, 81 and sequ. Well- guarded trial for high treason, ne- cessary for liberty, ibid and sequ. Common protection of criminals, withdrawn from it, 82; Constitu- tion of United States on it, ibid; course of its development, 83. Law of high treason a gage of liberty, 85; necessary safeguards of a fair trial for high treason, 85. The senate does not try for it, 87. Neapolitan trials for treason, ibid. Hildreth, theory of politics, etc., 217,
Holt. Lord, doctrine of bailments, 216.
Hortensius, Hist. View of Office and Duties of Advocate, 244, note. House, one, of legislature, 197; tried in United States, 198. Houses, two, of legislatures, 197. Howard obtains support of prisoners by government, in 1774, p. 222. Huc, missionary, 126. Hungary, disjunctive constitution of, 344.
IMPEACHMENT, American, 87; is a political institution, not a penal, ibid. See High Treason. Imperatorial sovereignty, 381 and sequ. Roman emperors claimed their power by transfer of popular sovereignty, ibid. Return of the French to the idea, 383. Early Asiatics, have the same idea, 385. Peuple-roi, 388. Emperor, centre of democracy, 391. Election, by universal suffrage of emperors. futile, 392. Cæsar always exists before imperatorial government, 393. Recommends itself by sub- stituting democratic equality for oligarchy, 394.
Impressment of seamen, 68. Indemnity, acts of, in England. 114 and sequ. Not known in United States, note to 114. Independence of the judiciary, what it consists in, 206 and sequ. See Independence of Law; of the Advo- See Advocate; of the law,
208. What it consists in, ibid. Common law, necessary for it, 208 and sequ.
Independence, Declaration of, of the United States, in full, 505 and sequ. Individual character and its elements, 50.
Individual property, its fullest pro- tection an element of liberty, 103. Individual sovereignty, 290; declared by Lamartine, 303. Individualism, 104, note. Initiative, in legislation, 186. Inorganic power of the people not liberty, 374.
Inquisitorial trial, 221 and sequ; pa- per on it, 457. Influence of the inquiring judge, ibid and sequ; prisoner urged to confess, 458; no cross-examination, ibid; no regular indictment, ibid; character of court and police, mingle, ibid; cautious defence, 459; admits of half proofs, ibid; illogical character of half proofs, 460. Compurgators in Ripu- arian laws, ibid. Koran, ibid. Legal truths, 462. Torture, exist-
ed very late, 463, note. Institute and institution, 309. Institution, 301 and sequ. Definition of, 304 and sequ. Grown and en- acted institutions, 307; definition by Dr. Arnold, 308; insures per- petuity, 310; must be independ- ent, 311; alone can prevent the growth of too much power; Greeks had no word for it, 311. Romans reared many institutions, 313. Old usages called institutions, 314. Ne- cessary attributes of an institution, 315; the opposite to subjectiveness, ibid. Dangers, 316; tenancy, 317. Institutional nations, 318; govern- ments, ibid. Gives strength to er- ror, 219; effete and hollow ones, 322; deciduous institutions, 323. Institutional self-government, 323. Anglican view of it, 324; its re- quirements, 325; its uses and effi- ciency with reference to liberty, 329. Obedience with reference to institution, 332; its tenacity, 334 and sequ; its formative power, 335; its assimilative and transmis- sible character, 336 and sequ. Why did the Netherlands not plant colo- nies which have become indepen- dencies? 337, note; its assimilative
character forcibly shown in the United States, 338. Stability, 339. Its dangers, 343. On conflicts, 346. Institutions bad from beginning, 348; they protect against court profligacy, 357; it prevents na- tional energy from being directed exclusively to external increase, 358. Insecurity of uninstitutional governments, 370 and sequ. In- stitutions, they survive England's revolutionary absolutism, 370; de- mocratic inorganic masses hostile to it, and in favor of monarchy, 375. Institutional liberty, 304 and sequ. Institutors, the greatest rulers are, 320.
Institutum, does not exactly corres- pond to our word institution, 311,
Interference, French, by government, 256. Interpretation, unavoidable, 208. Pa- pal power against it, 209; civil law against it, ibid. Locke against it, 210. Bavarian code, 211.
JAMES II. subverting constitution apparently in favor of liberty, 395. Jefferson, Manual of Parliamentary Practice, 195.
Jeffreys, Lord, even he for allowing counsel to prisoners, 243. Johnson, Dr. Samuel, corn-laws, etc.,
Judge-made law, 214. Judiciary, independence of. See In- dependence of Judiciary. Jugements administratifs, in France, 220.
Julius Cæsar, 383. Junkerthum, appellation of a Ger- man party, 121. Justice of the peace, French, 284. Justice of the peace, English, 326.
KEEPER of the seals. See Chancel- lor, Lord, of England. King, Rufus, in connection with Ame- rican free river navigation, 273. King's Notes of the Voyage of the Morrison, 113.
King's Bench, its power, 366. Kingless polity, not necessarily a re- public, 363. Kingly commonwealth, name given by Dr. Arnold to English polity, 361.
LAMARTINE, in favor of one house of legis., 199; speaks of division of sovereignty in two parts, 200, note; changed his opinion in 1850, p. 200; his circular in 1848, p. 303; his opinion on unicameral system, see this; on patience in politics, 360.
Latinism and Teutonism, 297. Law, peculiar meaning of the term in England, 28 and note; above crown, ibid, 206; supremacy of, 108 and sequ, 278.
Layard, Nineveh, 345, note.
Legaré, Hugh, on Civil Law, 215,
Legislative corps, French, decree di- recting its intercourse with the ex- ecutive, etc., 588.
Lemoisne, Wellington from a French point of view, 330, note. Lesbian Canon, used by Aristotle to explain what psephisma ought to be, 360, note.
Letters, sacredness of, not acknow- ledged in France, 91 and sequ. Case of Mr. Coëtlogon, 93; opened by French police and judgment given by French courts on it, 165,
Lettre de cachet, 67.
Liberians, traditionally institutional, 335.
Libertas, meaning abolition of royal- ty, 28; of the Romans, 43. Liberty, may exist without Republi- canism, 261; civil liberty, proved by contraries, 275 and sequ; ad- mired by many in the abstract, disrelished in reality, 290; election of the chief does not establish it, 291; can it be engaged by the An- | glican race alone, 295; how are people prepared for it, 296; insti- tutional, 304 and sequ; supported and promoted by institutions, 329; saying of Napoleon III., that liber- ty never aided in founding a dura- ble edifice, 341. It cannot develop itself out of despotism, ibid Li- berty is not a mere negation of power, 366; wealth made compatible with liberty, 368; inorganic power of the people not liberty, 374. Liberties, confirmation of, 476 and sequ.
Lieber, Popular Essays on Subjects of
Penal Law, etc., 74; letter to W. C.
Preston, on international copyright, 94, note; essays on Labor and Pro- perty, 103, note, 390; Principles of Interpretation and Construction in Law and Politics, 208, note; Ency- clopædia Americana, 216, 574; Character of the Gentleman, 248; on Independence of Justice and Freedom of Law, (in German,) 207, note; Legal Hermeneutics, etc., 209. Liverpool, Lord, considers Cabinet ministers responsible to parliament and public, 164, note. Locke, for the division of power, 155;
against interpretation of law by courts, 210 and sequ; against una- nimity of juries, 242. Locomotion, right of, 89 and sequ, 95 and sequ.
London, police of, 301; though larger than Paris, does not lead England, 400.
Longevity of modern states, 369. Lynch law, 84.
MACAULAY, Lord, opinion on want of written guarantees when Charles II. was restored, 334. Machiavelli, on new governments, 364, note.
Madaiai Family, 100.
Magna Charta, of King John, in full,
467 and sequ; of Henry III., etc., in full, 476 and sequ. Majority, rule of, mistaken for self- government, 286.
Malta, Knights of, election of the master, 181. Mandarinism, 169, note. Mansfield, Lord, on warrants, 64; let- ter to a Scottish judge, on altera- tions to be made by courts, 218, note; on the case of Rev. Dr. Dodd, 443, note; he calls Socrates the greatest of lawyers, 245. Marcus Aurelius, letter from Fronte to him, 381, note. Market democracy, irreconcilable with liberty, 170. Mars, Mademoiselle, her saying, 413. Marshall, Ch. Justice, on treason, 83. Martial law, Executive must not
have the sole power of declaring it, 110. In England, by act of parlia- ment, ibid. Under what circum- stances the Const. of U. S., permits suspension of habeas corpus, q. v.
Massaniello, sepulchral inscription, |
London, their spirit towards Napoleon III. Michel, advocate, 388.
Michigan, abolishes, in 1859, grand jury, 261.
Migration of nations, modern, peace- ful, 21.
Milton, against censorship, 94. Minority, protected, important to li- berty, 31; its protection a neces- sary element of liberty, 152; to be represented by mode of voting, 179; to be represented by a mode of election, 180.
Ministers, responsible. See Respon-
sible ministers, 163 and sequ; of the crown, had a seat in both houses, even if not members, under the two charters, 186.
Miot, Count, memoirs, account of Na- poleon's attempt to abolish jury,
Miot, Count, with reference to sena- tus consultum, 321, note.
Mirmont, de la Ville de, observations
on pardoning for good conduct, 454, note.
Mittelberger, Gottlieb, seven weeks chiefly on the Rhine, from Swabia to Rotterdam, 272, note. Mittermaier, opinion on importance of penal trial, 71; on independence of advocates, 243, note. Mobs, 414 and sequ. Mohl, Robert von, History and Litera- ture of Political Sciences, 357, note. Montaign, executed by commissioners, 109, note. Montalembert, Count, his trial in 1858, p. 86; prosecution against him, why, 201. Montesquieu, definition of liberty, 33; English liberty his model, 51: on penal trial, 71; on division of power, 155; on despotic power,
Moral reduplication, case of, 316. Mormonism, no republic, 292; Mor- mons, 101 and sequ. Morny, A. de, letter of, to the pre- fects, concerning the character of French imperial government, 611. Morpeth, Lord, Earl Carlisle, 125,
Müffling, Baron, Campaign of 1813
and 1814, edited by Col. P. Yorke, 333.
Mutual toleration, necessarily con- nected with liberty, 56. Mutiny bill, England, keeps army under control of parliament, 117.
NAPOLEON I., on the French love of equality, 287; his devise: "every- thing for the people, nothing by the people," 254; attempts to abolish jury, 258; government the repre- sentative of the people," 381, note. Napoleon III., his testimony in favor of English personal liberty, 67; when in exile, wrote against pass- ports, 98, note; prohibits sale of printing presses and types, 277; declares the history of nations the history of their armies, 279; con- gratulates France that it enjoys in- digenous institutions, 297; saying regarding liberty being incapable of founding durable edifices, 341; "in crowning me, France crowns herself," 362, note; speech on opening the Louvre, on representa- tive character of great public build- ings, 397; declared the savior of civilization, 404.
National and city states, 367 and sequ.
National guards, 294.
National independence an element of liberty, 58 and sequ. National representation necessary for liberty, 172.
National states, 171 and note. Nationalization, 49. National courts, 109. Navy, not dangerous to liberty, 117. Netherlands, ruined by disjunction,
Netherlands, why did they not plant independent empires, 337, note. Niebuhr, B. G., Administration of Great Britain, by Baron von Vincke, edited by, 326, note.
Nobility, its absence in America, when the revolution broke out, prevented civil war, 262; none in England, in point of law, 355. Nomos and psephisma, 360, note. Nugent, Lord, opinion on the right of granting supplies, 149.
OBEDIENCE, in connection with in- stitution, 332.
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