republicans against it, ib. Abhorred by absolutists, 227. See French Republican Constitution in Ap- pendix.
Division of Government into three powers, 121. Locke, Montesquieu on it, ib. Girardin against it, ib. Dodd, Rev. Dr., not pardoned, 395. Donaldson's Greek Dictionary, ad verbum Autonomy, 23, note. Double Elections, 141. Dragonades, 95.
Dumont, on want of parliamentary rules in France, 153.
EBRINGTON, Lord, conversation with Napoleon, 237, note.
Education, cannot alone secure Li- berty, 254.
Edward, Magna Charta of king, 426. Elections, direct and double, 141. Circuitous in Middle Ages, 142. Executive influencing them, 143. Election managers, ib. Elections and election statistics, 375, et seq. Cromwell's act of 1656, 375, 379. "The People's Elect," 376. Con- ditions necessary to make general votes valid, ib. et seq. Question must be fairly before the people, ib. Elections must be properly organ- ized, ib. Election judges, 377. Election returns not pass through executive, ib. et seq. Person on whom judgment is passed ought to be in position to abide by the re- sult, 377. Two things must be really before the people, ib. The power on whom judgment is passed must not first commit the crime and then ask for a vote, 377, et seq. Presidential Election in United States, 380, and note. Results of election statistics, 381. The more exclusive the electoral privilege the less abstain from voting, ib. When qualified voters exceed six hundred, at least twenty-five per centum ab- stain, ib. The larger the number the more abstain, ib. When three candidates, larger vote, ib. Num- ber of votes does not necessarily indicate the interest taken in the
election, ib. If qualified voters exceed several thousands, one-half generally vote; two-thirds show great interest; three-fourths indi- cate excitement, ib. Voting on men draws most votes, ib. Votes of yes or no, no meaning in centralized and large countries, 382. Instances, Number of votes given
in Athens, ib. Ostracism, ib. Why so many abstained from voting in Athens, 383. Number of votes given in France, 384, et seq. Num- ber of votes given in England, ib. et seq. Votes polled in Massa- chusetts, 385. In South Carolina, ib. In Connecticut, ib. Votes polled in United States at presi- dential elections, and proportion of abstainers, 386. Manner of esti- mating number of qualified voters, ib. French vote on coup d'état, 387. M. Persigny's estimate of qualified voters in France, ib. Col. Espinasse's statement of number of impri- soned Frenchmen, 388. No reliance to be placed on the vote on coup d'état, ib. Vote on establishing the French empire, 388, et seq. Money- bribery does not exist, but intimi- dation, 390. Vote on French pre- sident, 389, note. Election per sal- tum, 501.
Eleutheros, derivation, 21, note. Emigration, Right of, 76, et seq. Enacted Constitutions, 131, note. England, its early nationalization, 33. Its historical good-luck, 34, and note. Resents papal interference, 43. Is the mother of republics, 290. Is a royal republic, 314. Former penal laws of England san- guinary, but the penal trial not, 408. Number of votes polled in, 384, et seq.
English, a jural people, 408. Enthusiasm, can it secure liberty? 254.
Epistolary Communion, 73. Inter- fered with on the European Conti- nent, ib. Late French interference with this right, 74. Equality. Napoleon's distinction be- tween equality and liberty, 14. As a political element in Greece, 31. Often avowed by arbitrary power, 349, 350. Equality and uniformity confounded, 237. Constitutes the chief idea of Gallican liberty, 235. Napoleon's view of it, 239. Espinasse's, Colonel, estimate of im- prisoned Frenchmen at the time of the vote on coup d'état, 388. Everett, Edward, letter to Mr. Cramp- ton, 79. Words on inability of the French to establish governments in foreign parts, 289.
Every man's house his castle, 44. Evidence, Laws of, in inquisitorial trial. See Inquisitorial Trial. Ex post facto Laws, 89.
Foster, Sir M., of Homicide, 92, note. Fox, Charles, Libel Bill, 194. France, number of votes polled in, 384, et seq.
Francis, Chronicles, &c. of Stock ex- change, 117.
Franklin, Dr., opinion on two Houses, 158, note.
Frederic of Prussia, on multitudes
submitting to one, 332. Complaints of English changes, ib. Free, etymology of the word, 20, note. The word is connected with friede, peace, 24, note. Fridon, in old Saxon, meant to protect, ib. God alone truly free, 20.
Freedom, derivation of the word, 20, note; and note to, 24. Freedom
(freithum) in German means barony, 21, note.
Freemen and non-slaves, 11. Freiligrath, German poet, 27, note. Freithum, see Freedom.
French Charters of Louis XVIII. and that of 1830 entire, 477. French Republic of 1848, constitution of, entire, 486.
Frequency of Parliament, British Declaration of Rights on it, 145. Fridon, old Saxon, to protect, is of the same root with free, 24, note, Frihals or Frijhals, 22, note. Fronto, 335, note.
Funds, public, under the legislature, 114.
GALLICAN Liberty, 232, et seq. What it consists in, ib. Court
of cassation, 233. Justice of the peace, and courts of conciliation, 234. Senate, ib. Idea of equality, real French liberty, 235. Not in- stitutional, 235, 236. Royer Col- lard's dictum, 236. Equality and uniformity confounded, ib. Strange instance of interference, 237, note. République Démocra- tique et Sociale, 236. Napoleon's view of equality, 239. Girardin's conception of one power, 240. Making the vote sole basis of liberty, 240, 241. Monastic orders founded on election, 241. Unicameral system, 242. Gallican aversion to co-operative government, 243, note. French derision of parliamentary government, 243, 244. National guards, 245, 246. Anglican liberty is opposed, because not original with French, 248.
General Votes of Yes or No, 375, et
seq. See Elections.
General Warrants, 46. Mansfield on
them, 47. Greenleaf on them, 48. Georgian term for liberty, 22, note. Girardin, against division of power 121. Conception of one power, 240 Universal suffrage is the republic, 316.
Gladstone's pamphlet on Neapolitan trials for treason, 70.
Gottfried, woman who poisoned above thirty persons, 198, et seq. Great cities,&c., by Vaughan, 354, note. Great Charter of King John entire, 414, et seq.
Greeks, idea of liberty, 13. Greenleaf on warrants, 48.
Grimm, German dictionary, 22, note. Grimke, Considerations upon the Nature and Tendency of Free In- stitutions, 221, note. Guards, National, 101.
Guizot, representative of parliamen- tary government in France, 122. Essays on History of France, 126. His opinion on absolutism, ib. History of the Origin of Represen- tative Governments, 136, note. On elections in monasteries, 241.
HABEAS Corpus Act, 49. Constitu- tion of the United States on the subject, ib. Alexander Hamilton on it, ib. Suspension of, in England, 90; in the United States, 91. Habeas Corpus Act, entire, 436. Hallam, on trial by jury, 196. Against unanimity of juries, ib. On English equality, 308, note.
Haller, Restoration Science, 310, note. Hamilton, Gerard;
logic, 155, note. Dr. Thomas Cooper's opinion on it, ib. Harris, proposes a general veto-power, 321, note.
Hatsell's Precedents, 151. Herodotus, 339.
High Treason, 64, et seq. American definition, 65. Chief-Justice Mar- shall, ib. Historical course of the law, 66, seq. Peculiar importance of trial, 64, seq. 68. Necessary requisites of a good trial for high treason, 68. American trial, 70. Historical Progress, 218, et seq. Historical Caricatures, 300, note. Hobbes, 333.
Hollow Institutions, their great dan- ger, 301,
Holmes, proposes one-hour rule, 111, note.
Hungary, former constitution, 297.
IMPERATORIAL Sovereignty, 335, et seq. Commenced in Rome when liberty was at an end, 336. Julius Cæsar, 337. Their elections, ib.; and Paper on Elections in Appen- dix.
M. Troplong's view of vic- torious democracy in Rome in the emperors, 338. Epitaph of Massa- niello, ib. note. Report of the senatorial committee written by M. Troplong, on changing the re- public into an empire, see Appen- dix, No. xiv. Dajoces, 339. Mon- golian view, 340. Names and words of no importance, 341. Attempts at intellectual and moral consistency, ib. M. Michel's, French advocate, view that people cannot violate the constitution, 343. Peuple-Roi, 344. Working-men not privileged, 345, and note. Ouvriers, ib. Vox Po- puli Vox Dei, 346, 360, et seq. Source of imperatorial sovereignty is not what it is pretended to be, 346. The Cæsar always exists be- fore he is proclaimed as such, 348. His election futile, 349. Arbitrary power recommends itself to popu- lar favour by avowing democratic equality, ib. Imperatorial sove- reignty plausible, 351.
Imperial Constitution of France, 500. Impressment of Seamen, 50. New Law, ib.
Incriminating one's self, 58. Indemnity, Acts of, for British Minis- ters, 93. Instances, ib. note. How
Americans get along without them, ib. Independence of the Judge, 182, et seq. Consists in independence of position as to fixedness and amount of salary, 188. In proper appoint- . ment and not elective, 182. (Po- litical judges, 185.) Ought judges to sit in the legislature, ib. et seq. In appointment for a long period, 188. Constitution of United States on independence of judges, 189. It consists in accusatorial and public trial, ib. et seq. Immovability, 190. French constitution of 1848 decreed appointment for life. See the Con- stitution in Appendix. Independence of the Judiciary, 166, et seq. View of British minister on it, 179.
Independence, Declaration of, of the United States, entire, 450. Individual Liberty, 45.
Individual Property, 83, et seq. Initiative, Right of, 146. French legislative corps deprived of it, ib. Ministers had it in France under the charters. Despots do not allow it to the legislature, 230. Inquisitorial trial, 58, 180, et seq. English Penal Laws formerly san- guinary, but trial not, 408. The in- quiring judge reports on the case, 409. He is not properly restricted, ib. No regular indictment, ib. Pri- soner is urged to confess; no phy- sical torture, but psychical, 410. No cross-examination of witnesses, ib. Justice and police are mixed, ib. Sorrowful defence, ib. Punish- ment proportioned according to evidence, 410. Logic of trial and conviction, ib. et seq. Number of witnesses, of oaths, &c., 411, 412. Torture still exists in the world, 414, note. It may return in some countries, 414. Indeed it has in Naples, ib. Insecurity of Uninstitutional States, 324, et seq. Institution, 251, et seq.
secure liberty, 253, et seq. Defini- tion of institution, 255. Character- istics, 255, 266. Single but great laws called institutions, 255. In- stances of institutions, 256. Deri- vation of the word, 257. Grown and enacted institutions, 258. Dr. Arnold's definition, 259. Difference between institute and institution, 260, note. Perpetuity of institu- tion, ib. Brilliant periods without
Lemoisne, Wellington from a French point of view, 283. Lesbian canon, 314.
Lib, Gothic for body, the same root with Latin liber, 21, note. Lieber, Translation of De Beaumont and De Tocqueville on Penitentiary System in U. S., 397, note. Cha- racter of the gentleman, 203, note. Essay on Penal Law, 57. Letter on International Copyright, 75. On Labour and Property, 83. Liberians, 289.
Liberty, definitions of, 7, et seq. All men desire it, even the despot, Liberty is self-determination, 20. Definition of liberty in general, ib. Derivation of the word, ib. note. Oratory, the æsthetics of liberty, 112. A thing that grows, 293. Webster's opinion on its sagacity and caution, 129. First conceived of as negation of slavery, 21, note. Great passage of Daniel Webster on its character, 124, et seq. See Civil Liberty; Anglican Liberty; Gallican Liberty.
Local self-government in Asia, see Self-government, 138. Dixon on Maiwara, on it, ib. note.
Locke, against comments on his con- stitution for South Carolina, 170. Against unanimity of juries, 197, Locomotion, right of, 76, seq. London and Paris compared, 354. Longevity of States, of itself, decides
nothing, 124, note. Longevity of modern states, 321.
Lot. The lot an element of Greek democracy, 32.
Louis XIV. persecutes Protestants, 81.
Louis XVIII., his charter, 477. Louis Napoleon's proclamation after the coup d'état, 16. Vote on it, 387. Against responsible minis- ters, 128, 129. His dictum that the history of armies is that of nations, 227, note. Calls himself Institutor, 274. Saying that liberty never founds governments, 294. Believed to have saved society, 359. Constitution made by him for France, 506.
Louis Philippe ; charter adopted
when he ascended the throne of France, entire, 477.
MACAULAY, on judges having seats in the Commons, 185. Opinion on the manner in which the English allowed Charles to return, 288.
Machiavelli, 318, note. Madison on division of power, 123, note.
Magna Charta of King John, entire, 414, et seq.
Magna Charta of King Edward, 426. Mainots, 45.
Majestas Populi, 335, et seq. Majority, Protection of, 119. Malleus Maleficarum, by Sprenger, 365.
Managers, Election, 143.
Mansfield, Lord, on general warrants, 47. On alteration of administration of justice, 177, note. On pardoning Dr. Dodd, 395.
Marcus Aurelius, letter by Fronto to, 335, note.
Market Democracy, 135.
Mars, Mademoiselle, dictum on ap-. plause, 367.
Marshall, Chief-Justice, on treason, 65. On property, 86, note. Massachusetts, votes polled in, 385, et seq. Pardoning in Massachusetts, see Paper on Pardoning in Appen- dix.
Massaniello, epitaph, 338. McDowell, governor, called on to speak beyond one hour," 111,
Medieval liberty, 32.
Medieval states, 29, et seq. Meeting, Right of peaceably, 103. Michel, French advocate. The people never violate the constitution, 343. Middle ages, conclamatory character of them, 363.
Miles, J. W., 22, note; 340, note. Ministers responsible, 128, et seq. Louis Napoleon against them, 129. Minority, Protection of, 118. Protec- tion of opposition, ib. Mistresses of French kings, 310. Mitchell, British Minister in Prussia, 332, note.
Mittermaier. His view of penal trial, 54. On difficulty of defending in inquisitorial trial, 198, note. His Art of Defending, ib.
Modern and Ancient States compared,
29, et seq. Difference between modern states, and antiquity, 321. Monastic Orders founded on election and constant voting, 242. Mongolian view of imperatorial sove- reignty, 339. Monopolies, act of parliament against them, 86.
Mormons, when they shall ask to be admitted into Union, 82. "Theo- democratic" government, 242.
Occidental and Oriental, 5, et seq. note.
Officers personally responsible for the legality of their acts, 91, et seq. Does not exist in France, 92. Sheriff, ib.
One hour rule, when first established, 111, note. In Athens, ib. Half an hour allowed to prelates at the Council of Trent, 112, note.. One House. Its danger, 157. Opposition, a great institution, 118. History of opposition, ib. Mere op- position to government, is not li- berty, 327.
Orality, see Publicity.
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