Orange, House of, in Netherlands, 331. Oratory, the aesthetics of liberty, 112. Oregon, formation of government in, 288.
Ostracism in Athens, number of votes polled, 382.
Ouvriers, 345, and note.
PALEY, definition of liberty, 18. View of penal law, 56, note. On pardoning and punishment, 396. Palmerston, Lord, on pardoning, and his experience, 407. Parliamentary law and usage, 148, et seq. Parliamentary rules of proce- dure, 152. Evil effects of their want, 153. Vallette, Cushing, Ben- tham on it (see these names), 155. United States constitution gives full right to settle them, to each house, ib. Law of psychological reduplica- tion, 156. Parliamentary govern- ment derided in France, 244. Parliamentary Liberty, see Civil Li- berty.
Pardoning, a real vetitive power, 165. Abuse of, 390, et seq. What the pardoning privilege consists in, 390. It is a real veto, 391. So-called vetoing power in modern times, is none, ib. note. Origin of par- doning power, 391, et seq. Despots divest themselves of it, ib. Authors against the power, especially Becca- ria, 393, et seq. What the ancients thought of it, ib. Why it is neces- sary, 394. Shakspeare on danger of pardoning, 395. Dangers of unli- mited pardoning power, ib. et seq. It unsettles reliance on, and supre- macy of law, ib. It endangers, ib. It interferes with reform of cri- minals, ib. It induces persons to meddle with punishment, who know nothing about it, ib. It at- tracts criminals and imports crime, ib. It makes unpardoned sentences unjust, ib. Dr. Paley's doctrine, 396. It saddles neighbours with criminals, ib. It grants arbitrary power, ib. Proofs given, ib. De Beaumont and de Tocqueville on pardoning in the United States, 397. Mathew Carey on it, ib. Wholesale pardon- ing at this moment, 398, note. In- structive official paper on pardon- ing in Massachusetts, 398. Statis- tics, ib. et seq. Those sentenced to severest punishments stand best chance to be pardoned, 399. Par- doning for money, 398, note. Recent document published by
Massachusetts convention, 399, note. On averages, 400, et seq. Measures proposed to remedy abuse of par- doning, 401, et seq. Constitution of French republic on pardoning, 403, note. Public attention not yet directed to it, 403, and note. Resti- tution distinct from pardoning, 406. Costliness of pardoning, 407. Lord Palmerston's view and expe- rience, ib. Pardoning in a county in Pennsylvania for fifteen years, 408.
Paris, its influence in France, 352, et seq. London and Paris compared,
Party, government by, 119, et seq. Passow's Greek Dictionary, ad verbum Eleutheros, 21, note. Passports, 79.
Pastoret, on pardoning power, 393. Patience, learned by institutional self- government, 313.
Peace, Justice of, French, 234. Penal Trial, as guarantee of liberty, 53. Why so important, ib. Mon- tesquieu's views, ib. Mittermaier's view, 54. In England long without counsel for prisoner, ib. Deficient Austrian penal trial, 55, note. In France, 55. What characterises a good penal trial, 56. Paley's view of penal law, ib. note. Govern- ment in France can interfere with it, 57, note. No one held to in- criminate himself, 58. Prisoner ought not to be asked, 59. Verdict ought to be definite, 60. No man tried twice, 61. French penal trial, 182.
People, meaning of the term, 40. Respectable meaning of the term in England and United States, 307,
Perreaus, not pardoned, 395. Persigny's, minister, estimate of qua- lified voters in France, 387. Personal liberty, 43.
Petition, Right of, not denied to the creature, 103. Chartist's petition, 102, note. An American statesman treating it lightly, ib. Petition of Rights, entire, 432. Peuple-Roi, 344.
Peuple tout-puissant, 330. Philips, conduct in defending Courvoi sier, 203, note.
Pitt, Wm., the younger, anecdote related by Duke of Wellington, re- garding political self-reliance, 209. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Pardoning there for fifteen years, 408.
Pius IV., Pope, bull against commen- taries of the decrees of Council of Trent, 169, note.
Pius IX., Pope, calls the Italian rising a Vox Dei, 368. Plato, 29, 30.
Plutarch, influence in French revolu- tion, 334, note.
Plutarchism and Rousseauism, 334, note.
Police, English, 251, note; 130, note. Police Governments, 251, note. Polignac, charge against him on ac- count of influencing elections, 144. Political Judges, 185.
Pope, his interference in the Middle Ages, 43.
Popular power is a reality, 328. Population, basis of representation, 140.
Power, Burke on it, 331. Chatham on the same, 332. Power, popular, real; Monarchical, lent, 329.
Power, prevention of its growth, 131. Precedent, 171. Louis Napoleon said to have created one for himself, 173.
President of United States' Senate, 149.
Presidential Election in United States,
380, and note. Proportion of ab- stainers from voting, 386.
Press Law, English of 1647, 75. That of Louis Napoleon, 76. Press, Liberty of. See Communion, Liberty of.
Preston, William C., Lieber's Letter to him on International Copyright, 75.
Opinion on Law articles in Encyclopædia Americana, 176, note. Price, Dr. R., definition of Liberty, 12. Property, 83, et seq. French Re- public acknowledged it, 85, note. Constitution of United States on Property, 86. Judge Story and Chief-Justice Marshall on it, ib. note.
Property, basis of representation, 140, et seq. What is really meant by it, ib. Propter vitam vivendi perdere cau- sas, 211.
Proudhon says that no one less de- mocratic than the people, 331. Proverbs, are they the voice of God? 368.
Prussia, Frederic of, on multitudes submitting to one, 332. See Fre- deric of Prussia.
Prussia, King of, on Unity of Power, 123, note.
Public Debt, English, not created by William III., 117.
Public Funds, despots want the con- trol over it, 225.
Publicity, 106, et seq. What it con- sists in, ib. Evil effect of much writing, 107. Public from publicus, populicus, 108. Opinion of a French statesman on its want, ib. No law insuring it in courts of justice, 109. Nor that of congress, ib. Nor that of parliament, ib. When for
the first time officially established, 110. Connexion with liberty, 112. All governments hostile to liberty -hostile to publicity, ib. Despots hate it, 229.
QUARTERING soldiers, 94, et seq. English Bill of rights, ib. Declara- tion of independence, 97.
RAIKES, Charles, Notes on North- western India, 106.
Ranke, Historian, 82.
Rapp, General, opinion on Napoleon, 126, note.
Raumer, Diplomacy of Europe, 332. Rawle, on Constitution of the United States, 221, note.
Reduplication, Law of Physiological, 156.
Representative Government, 133, et seq. Evolves public opinion, 133, Prevents centralization, ib. Is of substantive value, 134. Trustees feel their responsibility, 136. Ne- cessity of union of estates into a national government, 137. General representative government neces- sary besides local self-government, 138. Basis of representation, 139. Direct and double elections, 141. Necessary rules and principles, 142. Frequency of parliament, 145. Pro- tection of members, 146. Parlia- mentary law and usage, 148, et seq. Republic, what does it consist in with reference to Mormons, 82. Republic, French, the constitution of 1848 entire, 486.
Repudiation, 87. Sir A. Alison on it, ib. note. Refuted, ib. Responsible ministers, 128 et seq. Responsibility, personal, of officers. See Officers personally responsible. Revolutions, unavoidable before liberty can be established in monar- chies, 325.
Reward of prosecutors, 62.
Robespierre, dictum as to what go vernment ought to be, 228. Read Rousseau daily, 334, note. Romans refusing to enlist, operated like English refusal of supplies, 116. Endeavour to give moral consistency to declarations of war, 341, note.
Roman Emperor, absolute, why, 31. Rome perishing of political bank- ruptcy, 136.
Romilly, Sir Samuel, against judges asking prisoners, 58. Intention of proposing a bill of compensation, 62. On lawyers, 204, note. Against judges sitting in the Commons, 185. On evil effects of want of parliamentary rules in French con- stituent assemblies, 153. Rousseau against division of power,
122. Contrat Social, 333. Against division of power, ib. His influence on French Revolution, ib. Rousseauism, see Rousseau. Russell, Lord John. History of Eng-
lish Government and Constitution, 19, note. A sentiment of his, 46.
true ends, 211. Propter vitam vivendi perdere causas, ib. De Tocqueville on inability of French to rule themselves, although they have had so many revolutions, 212. Institutional self-government, 277, et seq. Local self-government, 279. Bye-laws, important and cha- racteristic of self-government, ib. et seq. Essential effects of institu- tional self-government, 282, et seq. Love of institutions, 283. It makes
obedience easy, 285. English
revolution left most institutions untouched, 288. Formation of government in Oregon, ib. ability of the French to establish governments, 289. Why the Dutch did not establish governments in foreign parts, 290, note. England the mother of republics, 290. As- similative power of institutional self-government, 291, et seq. Sta- bility of this government, 292. Napoleon I. quoted, ib. note. Political fashions prevented by it, 293. Liberty a thing that grows in institutions, 294. Louis Napoleon's saying that liberty does not found states, ib. Dangers of institutional self-government, 215, et seq. Self- government must always be ade- quate to the executive, 296. Liberty requires union, ib. Dema- gogues, 298. Importance of con- stitution depends on institutions, 299. Love of effete institutions, 300. Advantages of institutional government, 306, et seq. High meaning of the term people, under such government, 307. It breaks the shocks which occur in central- ized countries, 309. Institutional self-government concentrates the attention of the people on domestic matters, 311. Patience learned by it, 313. It is the only government which prevents the growth of too much power, 318, et seq. Multi- plied veto no safeguard, 319. It causes longevity of states, 321, et seq. It makes wealth and liberty compatible, 322. Insecurity of uninstitutional states, 324, et seq. See Autonomy. Self-Incrimination, 58. Self-Taxation, 86.
Senate, French, 234. Russian, 235. Senatus Consultum, on the French empire to be erected, 531. Sending for persons and papers, 151. Septennial Bill, 144.
Sewell, Christian Politics, 265, note. Shakers, 163, note. Shakspeare on pardoning, 395. Sheriff, personally responsible, 92. Sidney, Algernon, 17. Siege, State of, 90. Silence, Liberty of, 76.
Smith, Joseph, founder of Mormons, 273.
Smith, T. Tomlin, on local self-go-
vernment, 278, note.
Socialists, fear of, in France, 359. Socrates's favourite saying, 294, note. Soldiers, quartering of, 94, et seq. South Carolina, number of votes polled, 385.
Sovereign, every Frenchman declared to be one, 253, note.
Sovereignty, what it consists in, 122. Sovereignty, Imperatorial, 325, et seq.
Sparta, why preferred by ancient phi- losophers, 326. Speaker, 148, et seq.
Sprenger's Malleus Maleficarum, 365. Ssanang Ssetsen Changsaidshi, trans- lated by I. J. Schmidt, 340, and note.
Standing armies, 95. Constitution of the United States, 96. Declaration of Independence on them, 97. In- jurious spirit they engender, 98, et seq. Short appropriations, 99. Ought they to have the right to vote? ib. Must not be deliberative bodies, ib.
State, meaning of the word, when England was a republic, 27, note. State of siege, 90.
St. Just, 297, 321, note. Story, Judge, on Treason, 66.
Property, 86, note. Commentary on the Constitution of United States, 152. Opinion on the importance of parliamentary usage, &c., 157. On Codification, 170. Contributions to Encyclopædia Americana, 176. Strictly abstained from politics, when judge, 186.
Supremacy of the Law, 88, et seq. Supplies, in England, 116.
Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act in England, 90.
Sweden, four estates, 244. Switzerland, 42.
TAXATION, 83, et seq.; 114, et seq. Federalist on it, ib. Test-Oaths in England, 81. Theo-democratic government of Mor- mons, 82.
Three Houses or more, mischief of, 160.
Tittman, F. W., Grecian Polities, 15. Tocqueville, De, opinion that the French always look toward the central government, although they change it so often, 212. On par- doning in United States, 397. Townsend's History of House of Com- mons, 151. Modern State Trials, 203, note.
Treason. Absolutists against a fair and regular trial for treason, 230. Trench, on Proverbs, 367, 368. Trial by Jury, 191, et seq. Division of judicial labour, ib. Guarantee of liberty, ib. Best school for the citizen. Doubts on its benefits, 192. Chat- ham's opinion, ib. Declaration of Independence on it, ib. The advan- tages of it, enumerated, 192, 193. Juries of experts, 198, note. Hallam on it, 196. Against unanimity, ib. To Locke, 197. Absolutists against it, 230. Tribune, Roman; his vetitive power, 164.
Troplong, his opinion that democracy in Rome victorious in the emperors, 338. Report on petitions to change the republic into an empire, in the French Senate, 518.
Two Houses, mischief of three houses,
157, et seq. Dr. Franklin's opinion, 158, note. Odillon Barrot's, 158. Lamartine's, ib. and note on, 159. Their great advantage, 160. Types and Printing Presses, free sale of, prohibited by Louis Napoleon, 225.
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