INDEX.
A. Checks and restraints, on the ju-
Abjuration - 98 dicial power 274
Abuse of a constitution more dif- - on the legislative 282
ficult to rectify than to form a - on the executive 286
new one - - - 10 Clearances 116
Accused person allowed counsel Coining money 102
and other rights 128 Colonies, their legal nature 19
Acquittal, effect of, 132 -- British 21
Adjournment of congress 48 Colonial commerce 26
Age qualification of, for certain Commerce 82
offices 287 Compensation to public officers 179
Alien 87 Communications by president to
- suits by an 231 congress 171
Alliance, no state allowed to en- Congress of provinces 26
ter into 136 of United States 27
Allegiance, how far indefeasible 87 its enumerated powers 77
Alteration of constitution ought --to lay and collect taxes ib.
not to be in power of the legis. --to borrow money on the
lature 16 credit of the United States 81
- impolicy of frequent alte- --to regulate internal and
rations ib. external commerce ib.
Amendments to the constitittion 120 --to establish a uniform
American people, their character 290 system of naturalization 84
Appellate jurisdiction, its nature --to pass uniform laws on
and necessity 231 the subject of bankruptcy 101
Apportionment of representation --to coin money and to
among the states 42 provide for the punishment for
of direct taxation 80 counterfeiting the current coin
Appointments to office 162 of U. States 102
Appropriations of public motieys 70 --to establish post offices
Aristocracy 36 and post roads 103
Arms, right of people to bear 125 --to grant patents for in-
Arsenals 238 ventions, &c. 104
Athenian assembly 13 --to define and punish pi-
Attainder, bills of 119 racies and felonies committed
corruption of blood on the high seas 106
upon, 143 --to define and punish of-
fences against the law of nations 108
B. --to declare and carry on
war 109
Bankruptcy 101
Bills of credit 102 --to provide for calling
- of rights not found in all the out the militia, and on what oc.
state constitutions 120 casions, &c. 111
Borrowing money by U. States 81 --to exercise exclusive le-
Britain, Great 1. 19. 24. 69. 75. 91. 95 gislation over a district of ten
miles square 112
C. -- to make all laws which
Caucus 58 shall be necessary for carrying
Census, see Enumeration. the foregoing into execution 114
Citizenship 86 is restricted from laying
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a tax or duty on articles export- Court for the trial of impeach-
ed from any state 115 ments, see impeachments.
Congress is restricted from giving -- martial 220
a preference by any regulations -- Supreme, of U. States 222
of commerce or revenue to the its powers ib.
ports of one state over those of --cases in which it
another 116 has original jurisdiction ib.
--from passing a bill of - when appellate 226
attainder or ex post facto law 119 -- circuit, 227
--from granting titles ib. -- district 231
--from passing any law re- -- territorial ib.
respecting the establishment of -- their jurisdiction ib.
religion or preventing the free Crimes, impossibility of fully de-
exercise of it 121 scribing them by statutes 262
--from passing any law to -- liable to punishment by
impair the liberty of the press 123 law of nature 268
-- from passing any law to -- against U. States, means,
prevent the people from peace- -- against people of U. States 262
eably assembling and petitioning 124 -- consequences deduced
Confederaion 26 therefrom ib.
Consuls 224
Consuls and vice consuls, prose- D.
cutions against 232 Decision, rules of
Connecticut originally chartered Democracy 10
on the principle of representa- Districts, appropriated for arse-
tion 14 nals, &c. 238
Consolidation, the U. States, not a -- seat of government 113, 238
consolidated government 243 -- judicial, U. States divided
Convention of 1787 27 into 236
Contagious disorders 116 Dockyards 238
Constitutions,their general meaning 9
--and principles 17 E.
--more readily form- Elections of members of house of
ed on single principle 10 representatives 41
-- need not be in writ- -- each house to judge of
ing 15 those of its own members 46
--of U. States 17 -- of president and vice
mode of construing president 51
it recommended 31 England,its constitution 13
Contempts of the legislative body 47 -- may be altered at the
power to punish, and pleasure of legislature 26
-- principles on which it is found- Enumeration, decennial 42
ed not declared by statute 272 -- peculiar to America
Convicts 101 that it should be required by
Contracts, laws impairing the ob- the constitution 44
ligation of, prohibited to states 136 --- its effects 45
Construction of constitution, pow- Enumerated powers of congress,
er of, belongs to judiciary, and vide congress.
not to legislature 227 Equity, construction given to the
copy right 104 word 257
Corruption of blood 143 Executive power 147
Courts, United States, cases in -- constitutional descrip-
which they have exclusive ju- tion of its extent and limitation 149
risdiction 202 -- unity of it desirable and
admiralty and maritime ib. unattended by danger 15O
affecting ambassadors, &c. 203 -- duties of president,
for the recovery of debts means provided for their per-
or damages due to U. States in formance 151
state courts ib. -- the command of the
- difficulty of, in regard to military forces 138
criminal cases 205 --, the qualified power
- their concurrent jurisdic- of appointing to executive and
tion with those of states 202, 205 judicial offices 162
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Executive officers, liability 163
to the state ib. Law, Cicero's remarks on 26O
to individuals ib. -- common 256
contrasted with the -- of nature 270
practice of foreign nations ib. -- of nations 108
-- influence, little danger Laws enacted by congress form
to be apprehended from the the third rule of obligation 77
undue exercise of - 286 Legislative action cannot be sus-
Expatriation 90 pended by an act of the execu-
Exportation 115 tive 34
Ex post facto law 119 Libels punishable 123
Exclusion, power of 47 Literary property 105
F. M.
Federal, the word, improperly Mail, robbing the 205
applied to the courts of the U. Marque and reprisal, letters of 136
States 252 Militia, nature of 163
Felonies 106 - advantages and disadvan-
Foreign States, &c. presents or tages 153
-- emoluments from 120 -- instances of their efficiency ib.
Fugitives from justice 100 -- subjection to the orders of
-- service ib. president and congress 155
-- cases arising out of this, &c. ib.
G.
Governors of states, when to obey N.
orders of president 155, 160 Nation, term applied to the United
their prompt co-opera- States not strictly applicable to 31
tion with the measures of the Individual states
general government Nations, law of 108
Naturalization 84
Guarantee of republican form of
government 295 Neutrality 75
Nobility, titles of 119
H. 0.
Habeas corpus 117 Offences, see crimes.
-- offices, appointment to executive
I. and judicial, in whom vested 162
impeachment 209, 273 -- when incompatible with
independence declared 28 each other 184
Indictment 132 -- oath of 190
information ib. Officers whose appointment re-
Insurrection 193 quires the consent of the se-
nate 163
J. -- the secre-
jeopardy of life or limb, no one tary of state 165
to be twice put in for the same -- -- of the
offence 132 treasury ib.
Judicial districts 128 -- of the navy ib.
-- power 199 -- of war ib.
-- offices, tenure of 277 officers, their commissions 166
Jury, trial by 134 -- delivery not essential to
Jurisdiction in suits by or against the validity of a commission ib.
states 203 - duration of commissions - ib.
-- admiralty and mairi- - executive, their liability 168
time 202 Organization of judiciary 276
Jurisdiction, concurrent, between
U. States and state courts-see P.
courts. Pardon 174
appellate of supreme - not grantable on convic-
court of United States, in what tions of impeachments,and why 293
cases 241 Patents for useful inventions 105
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Petioning, right of, secured 124
Piracies 106 Quarantine 116
Post office and post roads 103 Quartering soldiers 126
Powers of government, how to Quorum 40, 48
be divided 12
Press, freedom of 123 R.
President, present mode of elec- Religious opinions not to be con-
tion 53 trolled 121
former mode ib. two states in which dis-
provision for a vacancy qualifications as to religious opi-
in the office 55 inions still exist 122
-- qualifications in can- Removal from state courts 233
didates 287 -- from office 278
-- participation in legis- Representation, its value 12
lative power 50 -- England 44
-- comparison between -- tabular view of it
the American and European sys- in U. States 45
tem as to the veto of the execu- -- anomaly in pre-
tive 62 sent system 46
-- his power in making Representitives, number of de-
treaties 63 termined by a decennial census 42
--to enforce tb em 75 -- house of, founded
--instance thereof ib. on the principle of the repre-
-- his power of granting sentation of the people, though
pardons 174 not purely and abstractedly 41
-- advantages of vesting -- composed of re-
it in him 178 presentatives of the people of
-- extends to all cases the several states, not of the
except impeachments and con- people at large; advantages of
tempts of either house of the this mode ib.
legislature 176, 177 -- its power as to
--- communications to be judging of returns and qualifi-
made by him to congress 171 cations and punishment of its
-- his duty in respect to own members 46
furnishing information upon the -- its duty and pow-
request of either house of con- ers in case of attempt to assail
gress ib. the freedom or corrupt the in-
-- former practice of tegrity of any of its members 47
congress upon receiving a mes- -- majority consti-
ge from 172 tutes a quorum 48
his duty as to carry- but a smaller
ing on intercourse with foreign number may adjourn de die in
nations 171 diem and may be authorized to
-- neutrality maintained compel the attendance of mem-
by him 75 bers 49
-- his power as to ac- -- cannot adjourn
knowledging the new establish- for more than three days, nor to
ment of a foreign nation 195 a different place ib.
-his duty in case of -- journal of its pro-
war breaking out between two ceedings ib.
or more external nations in re- Restrictions 115, 282
spect to preserving neutrality 197 Revenue defined 71
-- may require the opi- -- bills for raising must
nions of the principal executive originate in the house of repre-
officers 194 sentatives ib.
Presidential electoral appoint- Rhode Island, its charer 14
ment of 57 Rotation in office 288
Private property, when it may be Royal governments 22
taken for public use 133
Provincial governments 22 S.
Punishments 268 Search warrants 127
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Seizures under laws of impost, &c. 231 Treaties, effect of 63
Secession from union 297 case of treaty of Nov.
-- effects of 306 19, 1794 68
Senate, its legislative power 33 -- correspondence be-
- its treaty making power 64 tween house of representatives
- its judicial power - 209 and president Washington on
Senators, their appointment 39 the subject 68
-- qualifications ib. -- resolutions of house of
-- number from each state ib. representatives 70
-- duration of office 39 -- their effect on state con-
-mode of supplying va- stitutions and laws 74, 324
cancies ib. -- disposition of money by
-- majority of members, treaty 70
not of states, constitutes a quo- -- plaintive letter of the
rum 40 old congress on the subbject of 316
-- question arising from Treason against U. States 139
the majority of states refusing Trial by jury 128
to appoint 303 - rights of the person accused
-not bound by instruc- on ib.
tions 39 Truces ib.
Slave trade 117
Speech, freedom of 123 U.
Statutes 78 Uniformity in organizing the mi-
States, members of the union 30 litia 111
- but not in a federate capa- Union, permanence of 295
city 31
- jurisdiction of suits by and V.
against 226 Vacancies in the senate 39
- sovereignty of, how pre- -- in the house of repre-
served 31 sentatives 46
-- in the office of president
T. and vice president 55
Taxation 79
Territories 237 W.
Treaties, their nature, and lan- War 109, 110
guage of the constitution con- Washington's administration 198
cerning them 63 -- farewell address 308
-- their formation and rati- Witnesses, process to bring them
fication, how, when, and by in allowed to the accused 129
whom ib. Writs of error 226, 234
