nry Patrick, on amending the Constitution, 44;
on the right of judges to oppose acts of the legislature, 96;
offer of the Chief Justiceship to, 95.
Hoar, George F., on law-making in the House of Representatives, 197,
198, 200.
House of Commons, character of, in the 18th century, 10, 153, 204.
House of Representatives, an irresponsible body during the second regular
session, 189;
a subordinate branch of the government, 136;
influence of the committee system on, 192;
relation of, to taxation and expenditure, 148.
See President, Senate, Speaker of the House.
Immigration, decline in the quality of, 314.
Impeachment, by a majority of the legislature, 142;
changes in state constitutions relating to, 231;
of judges, 20;
reason for making difficult, 142;
relation of, to executive and judicial veto, 143.
See Judges, President, Senate.
Income Tax decision, 114, 222, 320.
Industry, control of, by the few, 307.
Initiative and referendum, 352.
Iredell, James, judicial veto defended by, as a means of limiting the
power of the majority, 89.
James I, on the divine right of kings, 104.
Jefferson, Thomas, on the independence of Federal judges, 68, 73 note,
100 note;
on the right of a state to nullify a federal law, 173.
Johnson, Alexander, on the conservatism of the Federal Convention, 33 note.
Judges, reason for advocating the independence of, 67;
removal of, under the early state constitutions, 71.
See Impeachment, Judicial Veto, Supreme Court.
Judicial infallibility, 115, 344.
Judicial veto, effort to revive, 87;
how conferred, 92;
in England, 85;
relation of, to the executive veto, 85;
relation of, to popular government, 99, 356;
significance of, 97.
Judiciary Act of 1789, 182;
why not incorporated in the Constitution, 183.
Kentucky resolutions, 172.
Kidd, Benjamin, on social progress, 391.
Labor, free trade in, 314.
_Laissez faire_, opposition of the masses to, 308;
relation of, to progress, 309, 311, 398.
Law, lack of respect for, 376-378.
Lawyers, virtually a ruling class, 300-302.
Lecky, W.E.H., on the purpose of the framers, 129.
Liberty, class control of industry destructive of, 306;
democratic conception of, 293;
eighteenth century economic conditions favorable to, 304;
eighteenth century view of, negative, 291;
survival of the old view in our legal literature, 301-303.
Lincoln, Abraham, on the right of
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