610
Continental Congress, First
claim of equal rights, 137, 139
Declaration and Resolves of, 90,
115, 117–19, 171–75
rejection of legislative supremacy,
90, 118
Continental Congress, Second, 119–21
Continental thinkers, influence on
Framers, 47–49
Contract law, 34
Conventions, constitutional, 5
for framing of state constitutions,
146–47
Cooley, Thomas, 254, 354
Copley, John Singleton, 396
Corruption, as republican disease, 18
County courts, 108
County governments, 107
Court of Star Chamber, 34
Courts. See Judicial branch; Supreme
Court of the United States
Covenants, 97
Craft, Kinuko, 396
Cromwell, Oliver, 28, 42, 44
Cruel and unusual punishments, 410,
422, 423
‘‘Daniel Webster Addressing the
Senate, 1850,’’ 352
Davis, Jefferson, 124, 352
Debates in the Several State Conventions
on the Adoption of the Federal
Constitution (Elliott), 394, 469
Declaration and Resolves of the First
Continental Congress, 90, 115,
117–19, 171–75
Declaration of Independence, 121–37
‘‘all men are created equal’’
provision, 130–31
as an enigma, 122, 124
foundation for argument against
slavery, 133
Index
grievances against England in, 30,
32
invoked to support secession, 137
legacy of, 136–37
limited support for political
equality in, 135–36
natural rights philosophy of, 125,
130–31, 132
Preamble, 90, 124–25, 131, 137
signing, 242
text of, 183–87
weakness of philosophical
argument, 131
Declaration of Rights of 1774, 90,
139–40
Declaration of the Causes and
Necessity of Taking up Arms, 90,
120–21, 176–82
Declaration of the Rights of Man, 53,
58
Declaratory Act, 113
The Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire (Gibbon), 21
Defence of the Constitutions of
Government of the United States (John
Adams), 16
Deficit spending, 326
de Gaulle, Charles, 57
‘‘Degenerous Gentleman’’ (Fuller), 247
Deists, 109
Delaware
ratification of Articles of
Confederation, 154
state constitution, 146, 150, 376
view of western lands as common
property, 153
Delegated powers, 295, 299–301, 303,
312, 343
Democracy, unrestrained, as threat to
law and order, 151, 254–55
Democracy and the American Party
System (Ranney and Kendall), xvii