ointing results of, 334-335;
causes of partial failure of, 335-337.
Civil War,
a case of a justifiable war, 255-256;
as a surgical operation, 269.
Class discrimination, 129, 191.
Clay, Henry,
Whig doctrine of, 52, 66;
reason for failure of ideas of, 69-70;
as a believer in compromises, 76;
an example of cheapening of intellectual individuality of leaders
during Middle Period, 427.
Cleveland, Grover, 168.
Colonial expansion,
the principle of nationality not hostile to, 259;
incompatibility of, for European powers, with aggrandizement at
home, 260-262;
not a cause of wars, but the contrary, 260-261;
question of what are limits of a practicable, 262-263;
is accomplishing a work without which a permanent international
settlement would be impossible, 263;
validity of, even for a democracy, 308;
of the United States, 308-310.
Commerce,
question of control of, by state or Federal government, 351-357.
Commissions,
supervision of corporations by, 360-361;
the objection to government by, 362;
false principle involved in government by, in that commissions make
the laws which they administer, 364;
public ownership contrasted with government by, 366;
the great objection to government by, in its effect on the capable
industrial manager, 368.
Communal state,
the mediaeval, 215, 216.
Communities,
religious, 283;
various brands of socialistic, during American Middle Period, 422.
Competition,
wastes of, lessened by big corporations, 115;
restriction of, by labor unions, 127, 386-388;
cooeperation substituted for, by big corporations, 359.
Compromise,
erected into an ultimate principle by British governing class, 234, 238;
in America in the interests of harmony, to be avoided, 269-270.
Congressional usurpation, danger to American people from, 69.
Constabulary,
state, 344-345.
Constitution,
the Federal, founders of, displayed distrust of democracy, 33-34;
despite error of Federalists, has proved an instrument capable of
flexible development, 34-35;
legal restrictions in, 35;
defect of unmodifiability of, 36;
on the whole a successful achievement, 36-37;
an accomplishment of the leaders of opinion rather than of the body of
the people, 38;
sanctioning of slavery by, 72;
power bestowed on lawyers by, 132-134;
immutability of, regarded as a fault in the American system, 200;
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