Index

Adams, John, xxviii, 164 American rebels, defence of, xvi, xix American Revolution, importance of,

xxi, 116-51 Anaxagoras, 126

Annihilation of the wicked, 109 Antichrist, downfall of, 160 Arbitrary power, 172 Aristotle, 132, 158 Atheism, 132 Authority, foundations of, 32-5, 39-44,

65-6, 190

Balanced Constitution, xx, 26-7, 92,

97, 164

Blackstone, Sir William, 80, 97 Britain, benefits enjoyed by, 2-11:

internal peace, 2-3; liberty, 3-5;

military and naval prowess, 6-7;

opulence, 3; virtue, 6 British Constitution, 95, 96, 165; see

also Balanced Constitution Burgh, James, xviii, 26n. Burke, Edmund, xix, xxi, xxii, xxviii, 15,

16, 177, 190n. Butler, Joseph, 142

Calamities, national, 112

Cartwright, John, xxix, 93

Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of, xxix, 64

Christianity, corruptions of, 91;

education in, 141, and patriotism, 179—80, 194; 'the perfection of reason', 90; Principles of, 133

Clarke, Samuel, xxix, 142, 168n.

Condorcet, xii

Confederation, principles of, 25, 34-5

Congress, powers of, 144

Copernicus, 126

Corruption, 12

Declaratory Act, 37, 51, 52

Defeasibility, xix

Disestablishment, 17, 18, 128, 165

Dissent, problems of, ix

Divine Right, theory of, 15-16, 29

East India Company, 52, 99

Education, x, 137-43,165-72

Empire, unity of, 27

Equality, 86

Eternal life, 102-11, 175

Fenelon, 182

Ferguson, Adam, xxix, 99

Filmer, Sir Robert, xxix, 87

Foreign trade, dangers of, 145-9

Fox, Charles James, 139n.

Franklin, Benjamin, xxx

Freedom, see Liberty

Galileo, 126

Gallio, 127

Glorious Revolution, 178, 188-92, 195

God, the reverence due to, 8

Government, principles of, 24, 26-8,

45, 80, 88, 106, 127, 164, 184-5 Government of the Deity, 102, 104

Hereditary honours, 145

Hoadly, Benjamin, xvi, xxx, 134, 168n.,

174,182

Hooker, Richard, 17 Hume, David, xxx, 94, loo, 142

Instructions, doctrine of, 25, 79 Kippis, Andrew, xxx, 188

Liberty, 3-5, 16-17, 20-4, 27, 124-5, 182, 195; as self-government, xvii, 22, 26, 30-2, 76, 80, 106; civil, xvii, xviii, 4, 14, 20-4, 30, 33, 36, 76, 77, 80, 83, 100; of the citizen, 82; of the community, 82; conscience, 130-7, 190; defined, 21-4, 76, 80; of discussion, 125-30, 165; favourable to arts and sciences, 29; of the government, 82; inalienable nature of, 89; moral xvii, 22, 30, 76, 83;

physical, 21, 22; political, xvii, xviii;

religious, ix, xiii, xvii, xxi, 4, 5, 22, 33, 76, 80, 83, 100, 128, 161; right to recover, 89; and tyranny, 94; value of, 83-100

Lind, John, 87

Locke, John, xvi, xix-xx, xxx-i, 20, 87, 97, 137-9, 182

Macpherson, James, 20

Markham, William, xxxi, 16-19

Maryland, Constitution of, 136

Massachusetts, Constitution of, 136

Middlesex election, 99

Millennialism, 119, 153-5, 160, 173

Milton, John, 182

Mirabeau, Comte Honoré Riquetti de,

xxxi, 116 Mixed government, see Balanced

Constitution Montesquieu, Charles Louis de

Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de,

xxxi, 30, 35, 80, 95, 137, 182

National Debt, 60, 63, 74, 75, 97, 121 Navigation Act, 75 Necker, Jacques, xxxi, 188n. Newton, Sir Isaac, 126, 137, 139, 158, 161, 168n.

Oaths, 149-50 Obligations of candour, x

Paper currency, perils of, 58-9, 61-3, 148-9

Patriotism, 100, 146-7, 178-96

Peace, the means of promoting, 122

Peters, Hugh, 177

Pitt the Younger, William, 192

Polybius, 94

Power, the use and abuse of, 46-8, 83, 106-8, 123, 187

Presbyterian Dissenters, 168

Price, Richard (editor's introduction only), attack on utilitarianism, viii;

career in the ministry, vii; debt to Locke, xix, xx; defence of natural rights, xxi; education, vii;

epistemology of morals and politics, viii; family, vii; millennialism, xi;

pragmatism, xxi; progress, xii; public finance, xiii-xv; and the Real Whigs, xix; theology, x-xii

Priestley, Joseph, xviii, xxxi-ii

Primogeniture, 146

Progress, 12, 118, 157-62, 166

Property, inequality in the distribution of, 144-6

Prophecy, 12, 103-11, 118, 119, 150-1, 154-6, 162, 165, 173

Providence, 7, 8, 69, 102, 118, 119, 159, 162

Public accounts, 98

Public finance, xiii-xiv, 120

Reform, the need for, 10 Religion, civil establishments of, 130-7,

146; see also Disestablishment Religious Tests, in Delaware, 137; in

Maryland, 136; in Massachusetts,

136; in Pennsylvania, 19, 136-7;

relief from, 18, 19

Representation, 24-5, 77-9, 93-6, 192 Resistance, right, of, 190 Retribution, 103-4, 112, 133, see also

Annihilation

Righteousness, the practice of, 9, 111 Rights, political, 190

St. Paul, 108, 127, 155, 194

St. Peter, 108

Secularization, xii

Self-dependence, x

Self-government, xvi

Shelburne, Sir William Petty, second

Earl of, xxxii, Plan of Pacification,

72-5 Shipley, Jonathan (Bishop of St Asaph),

46

Sidney, Algernon, 182 Sinking Fund, 121 Slavery, 35, 37, 81, 93; defined, 23, 26;

external, 77; internal 78; Negro, 159 Social contract theory, 15, 127 Social statistics, 124 Socrates, 126 Sovereignty, 123, 144 Standing armies, 99, 123 Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, third

Earl, 190 Superstition, 132 Sykes, Anthony Ashley, 168n.

Tacitus, 94 Taxation, internal, 51-4

Toleration, 18, 191 Trade with the Colonies, 56-7 Triennial Parliaments, 97 Truth, pursuit of, 181 Tucker, Josiah, xxxii

Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques, xii, xxxii, 182

Universal Benevolence, 180, 194 Virtue, nature of, 82, 182

War with America, honour of the nation in, 64-7; justice of, 37-45;

policy of, 45-63; probability of success in, 67-71

Washington, George, 122

Whiston, William, 168n.

Wilkes, John, xxxi

Worship, the duties of, 8-9