Massaniello, sepulchral inscription,
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, 258, note.
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, 157.
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,
Müfling, 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, 867 and
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, 173.
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.
Oceana, 344, note. Occidental, contradistinguished from Oriental, 22.
Odo, yielding his consent to be Arch- bishop of Canterbury, in connec- tion with vox populi vox Dei, 407,
Omnipotence of parliament, 375, note. One-hour rule, 137, note. Council
of Trent adopted half-hour rule, ibid.
Opposition, necessary element of li- berty, 152 and sequ; its develop- ment in England, 154. Oral discussions, 131. Necessary to liberty, 132.
Ordinance of 13th July, 1787, declar-
ing American rivers free, 274. Oregon, meeting of settlers, when congress had failed to provide for them, 197.
Ostracism, how many votes polled, 428.
Otis, James, first proposes to hold public deliberations of legislature, 135, note.
Ouvrier, or workman, in 1818, p. 389.
PALEY, definition of liberty, 35. Palmerston, Lord, declaration in 1853 that England will protect political exiles, 58; his complacency to Na- poleon, punished by the commons in 1859, p. 59: on pardoning, 455. Papal interference not suffered in England at an early period, 61. Pardon, a real veto power, 205. Pardoning, abuse of, paper on it, ap- pendix, 437 and sequ. Resembles the ancient veto, ibid. Origin of pardoning power, 438. Asiatic despots divest themselves of it, ibid. Chardin, speaks of it in Persia, 439. Authors against par- doning, especially Beccaria, 440. It cannot be dispensed with, ibid. Supremacy of the law invaded by unjust and licentious pardoning,
441. It unsettles reliance on law, 442; distroys certainty of punish- ment, ibid. Shakspeare against it, ibid; interferes with reform of criminals, ibid; imports criminals from abroad, ibid; induces people to petition for it, who know nothing about its character, ibid; sends criminals abroad, 443; places arbi- trary power in the hands of an in-
dividual, ibid. Lord Mansfield, on Rev. Dr. Dodd, 443, note. De Beaumont and de Tocqueville, on pardoning in United States, 444. Matthew Carey on it, 445. Taking money for pardoning, ibid and note. Pardoning in Massachu- setts, 446. Averages in penal mat- ters, 449; their insufficiency, ibid, note. How to abolish the abuse of pardoning, 450. Restriction in the French constitution of 1848, p. 451. Attention not yet sufficiently di- rected to it, 451, note. Legisla- ture no proper body for pardoning. 452.
Requisites of a proper board of pardoning, 453. Restitution different from pardon, 455. Lord Palmerston on pardoning, 455. Paris, its influence on account of cen- tralization, 396. Paris dictates in everything, 400.
Parliamentarism term, coined by the French, 293.
Parliamentary liberty, derided, 193. Parliamentary law, 188 and sequ; is part of common law, 190. Ancients had it not, 192. Parliamentary procedure, 192; Judge Story on its importance, 196. Parties and party government, 153. Their dangers, 154. Passports, dislike of them by our race, 98.
Patience, in politics, 360.
Patriotism, not national vanity, 298. Patron saint, election of, 422, note. Payne, Rev. Mr., on the Grebo bribe, 292, note.
Peerage, is not nobility, 355. Penal laws, determine, according to Montesquieu, liberty, 34. Penal law of England, formerly very cruel, but not the trial, 357. Penal trial, well-secured, necessary for liberty, 70. Montesquieu on it, 71. Ancient and French, 72; as important as penal law itself, 222. Dangers of putting questions to prisoners, 76; questioning was formerly allowed in England, ibid. Reasons against it, 77. No man to be tried twice for the same of- fence, 78; not a favorite topic of lawyers, 73; requisites of a sound penal trial, ibid and sequ. People, the different meanings of the
term in different countries, 352.
In England and America, an ho- nored word, 354. Confusion of the people and some people, ibid and note. The people "never violate the constitution," 388. What does the term mean in vox populi vox Dei? 405, 412.
Personal liberty, its guarantees, 61. Persons and papers, power of send- ing for, 191.
Petition, right of, 124 and sequ. Con- sidered lightly by an American statesman, 124; in Russia, 126; in China, ibid. In Prussia, under Frederic II., ibid. No demonstra- tions of physical force ought to ac- company it, 126; in full, 484 and
Petre, Hon. Mrs., and Silby estate affair, 97.
Peuple, tout-puissant, 303, 375. Philips, in the Courvoisier case, 248,
Pickering, Timothy, letter to Rufus King, urging free river navigation, 273. Pigott, Sir Arthur, repudiating for Prince of Wales, 107, note. Pitt, his last words on England's self- reliance, anecdote related by Wel- lington, 255.
Pius IX., Pope, uses vox populi vox Dei, 413.
Plutarch, influence in France, 379. Plumper, in elections, 180 and note. Plato's republic, 46. Police governments, 93. Polignac, Duke of, charge against him, 182; Prince, one of the hea- viest charges against him that he influenced elections, 392. Political offence, 81.
Pope, Pius IV., against interpreta- tion, 209.
Popular unrestrained power, opposite to self-government, 395. Popular absolutism, 380. Power, its "impotency," Napoleon's saying, 257; two much growth of, can only be prevented by institu- tions, 364; necessary for govern- ment, 365; mere negation of, no security for liberty, 373; its origin has no connection with liberty, 378; necessity of giving some fair account of its basis, 386. Practice, parliamentary, 192.
Practice, so-called, in German courts, 218.
Precedent, element of all develop- ment, 212. Necessary to liberty, 213; liberty stands in need of, 282. Preston, Wm. C., letter to him or in- ternational copyright, 94, note. Price, Dr., definition of liberty, 28; Turgot's letter to him, 198. Principate, or Crown, 51. Private property acknowledged by French constitution, 105. Procedure, parliamentary, 192; ab- sence of it in French revolution, 193. American habit of, 194. French work on it, by Vallette and St. Martin, 194. Proclamation of Napoleon, president of the republic, preceding the con- stitution, which became the impe- rial one, 576.
Property, transmission by inherit- ance, 103. Unimpeded exchange
and accumulation, elements of li- berty, 104. Protected by Consti-
tution of United States, 105 Basis of representation, 175 and sequ. What is really meant by it, 176. Consisted chiefly in land, in mid- dle ages, 177.
Propter vitam vivendi perdere causas, 257.
Proudhon, no one less democratic than the people, 376. Proverbs, voice of the people, but not Dei, 413.
Psephisma and Nomos, 360, note. Psychical reduplication, 196. Public, derivation of the word, 133. Public funds, must be under control of legislature, 148.
Public opinion, differs from general opinion, or passion, 394.
Public trials, criminal, in Naples, 21. Publicity, in justice and legislation,
saved by England, 21, 130 and sequ. What it consists in, 131. Of courts of justice, not guaranteed by positive law in United States or England, 134. First distinctly au- thorized for the legislature in Mas- sachusetts, ibid. Public speaking necessary, and the ornament of liberty, 136. To read speeches in legislatures, an evil, 137. Hostility of absolute governments to it, 138. Interesting historical account of
the introduction of publicity in the Senate of United States, by James C. Welling, 139, note.
QUARTERING of soldiers, 116 and sequ.
Ordinance of 1787 declaring rivers forever free, 274.
Robespierre's great speech, 280. Roman lawyers, their definition of liberty, 26. Their dictum of the emperor's pleasure, 26 and note.
Queen of England, called an institu- Romans did not incline to abstraction, tion, 313.
RAIKES, CHARLES, Notes on the Northwestern Province, 131. Rapp, General, his opinion of Napo- leon, 160.
Raumer, von, Diplomatic Despatches of the Last Century, 359, note. Rousseau hates representative govern- ment, 18; his views lead to central- ized government, ibid. Reduplication, psychical, 196; law of,
Report of the French senate on the petitions to change the republic into an empire, 594. Representative government, 168, and sequ; differs from deputative gov- ernment, ibid. Derided, 18; hated by Rousseau, ibid. Representation, basis of, 175. Representatives must be free, 183; frequent election of them, ibid; must be protected, ibid. Free from arrest, 185. Possessing the initia- tive, 186. Officers of the United States cannot be members of con- gress, 186. Are they national, or merely for their constituents? 203. Republic and respublica, 43. Republic, in 1848, was telegraphed from Paris and accepted by return, 400.
République democratique et sociale. 289.
Repudiation, 106. Sir A. Alison on Repudiation, 107, and note. Repu- diation has not been republican but rather monarchical, 107. Responsible ministers, 163 and sequ. Respublica and republic, 43. Right, Petition of, in full, 484. Rights, Bill of, in full, 499 and sequ. Rights of man, 536 and sequ. Ripuarian laws, 460.
Rivers, international question of free navigation, 272 and note; free- dom of their navigation peculiar to United States, 271. Difficulty in Germany, 272; Scheldt, ibid. Mag- na Charta regarding rivers, ibid.
Romilly, Sir Samuel, his opinion on putting questions to the prisoner, 76; on absence of parliamentary practice in French revolution, 193; on ethics of lawyers, 249. Rousseau against division of power, 155; his aversion to representative government, 287; social contract only establishes unity of power, 378. Was the text-book of leading revolutionists in France, 379. Royal Republic, England called thus,
Ruatan warrant, 180. Ruggles, Samuel B., speech on right and duty of American Union to im- prove the navigable waters, 1852, and memorial of the canal board and canal commissioners, etc., 1858, p. 274.
Russell, Lord John, on definitions of
liberty, 36. His History of English Government and Constitution, ibid. Russia, insecurity of her rulers, 371.
SANDERSON, casuist, 407, note. Sardanapalus, inscription on his tomb,
Scheldt, navigation of, 272. Schmidt, I. J., Translation of History of the East Moguls by Ssanang, etc., 386.
Scott, General, his conduct when the government of Mexico was offered,
330; his own statement, 330, note. Secret political societies, 138. Sejunction of the Netherlands, 343. Self-Accusation, principle of, in Chi- na, 78.
Self-Development of law, 218 and sequ.
Self-Government, saved by England, 21; the word belongs exclusively to Anglican race, ibid; Armenian term for it, 39, note. Self-Government, 251 and sequ. His- tory of the term, note on 251, and sequ; is organic, 254. Self-Government, the fittest govern- ment for man in his nobler phase,
liamentary procedure, 196; on codi- fication, 210; Lord Cranworth, ibid. Subjects, slaves and freemen, 26. Substitutes, for representatives, not used in Anglican system, 181. Supplies by legislature, always shunned by absolute rulers, 278. See Taxation.
256; frequently not brilliant, yet | Story, Judge, on importance of par- more efficacious, 257; prevents gov- ernment from becoming its own end, 257; has an element of federalism, 294. See also de Tocqueville. Does not consist in denying power to go- vernment, 302; institutional self-go- vernment, 323; popular absolutism opposite to self-government, 395. Self-Incrimination, 75.
Semper ubique, 410, note and sequ. Senatus Consultum, a term smuggled in by Napoleon I., 321; the whole senatus consultum restoring the empire, 608.
Separatism, 174, note.
Septennial bill, introduced in France
by Villêle, 184; in England, ibid. Sewell, Rev. William, Christian Poli- tics, 313.
Sheriff, killing him by resistance, if his warrant is not legal, constitutes manslaughter only, 112.
Selby Estate affair, 97.
Silence, made punishable, 94. Single-speech Hamilton.
ton, W. Gerard.
Slaves, subjects and freemen, 26. Smith, T. Toulmin, local self-govern- ment, 325, note. Socialism, 104, note.
Socrates, called by Lord Mansfield the greatest of lawyers, 245. Soldiers. See Army, Quartering of Soldiers, 116 and sequ. Sovereignty, what it consists in, 157; confounded with absolute majority, 290; of the individual, ibid. Sparta, favorable view of, by ancient philosophers, 45.
Spartans and Helots, 26.
Speaker of the English Commons, 188; under the French charter, 189; in America, ibid. Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum, 410. Ssanang Ssetren Changsaidshi, trans- lated by Schmidt, 386. Stability of Institutional Government, 339.
Standing armies. See Army. State, an extensive territory with fixed population and independent government, a modern idea, 49. Statistics of Elections, 424. St. Just, liberty of a negative cha- racter, 366.
St. Martin, French work on parlia- mentary procedure, etc., 194.
Supremacy of the law, 108 and sequ; requires that officers of go- vernment remain personally an- swerable, 111; only English and Americans have this principle, ibid; whether the principle has been carried too far, 113. Subjects, law of, 75, note. Swiss, dependence of, 59.
TAXATION, right of self-taxation, 105; Declaration of Independence concerning taxes without consent, 148; merely denying taxes is not liberty, 149; appropriations should be short, ibid; French imperial constitution demands appropria- tions en bloc, 150; history of Eng- lish supplies, ibid; civil list, 151. Teutonic spirit, its relation to Angli- can liberty, 55.
Teutonism and Latinism, 297. Theo-democracy of Mormons, 292. Tittman, F. W., descript. of Greek politics, 31.
Tocqueville, de, Ancien Regime, 199, note; opinion on centralization of France and its insecurity, 258; on the general character of the French, from his Ancien Regime, 259, note. Torture, existed very late, 463, note. Townsend, Hist. of Commons, 191. Transportation, decreed by the dicta- tor in France, 75; expatriation, etc., almost always resorted to by absolutism. See Liberty proved by contraries.
Treason. See High Treason; trial for. Absolutism abhors proper guarantees, 85.
Trench, Lessons in Proverbs, 413. Trial by Jury, 235 and sequ; Decla-
ration of Independence regarding its denial, 236; some Americans desire its abolition, 236; its advan- tages, 237; Lord Cranworth's opinion on it, 239. See Unanimity. Trial, Penal. See Penal Trial.
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