614
First Continental Congress (continued)
rejection of legislative supremacy,
90, 118
First principles, 8
First Treatise of Civil Government
(Locke), 45
Fishing, 436
Fletcher v. Peck, 484
Forced labor, 94
Ford, Gerald, 589
Fourteenth Amendment, 308, 325, 498,
566, 567, 570–75
Due Process Clause, 23, 558, 567,
570–75
Equal Protection Clause, 135,
573–74, 587
privileges and immunities clause,
572
Fourth Amendment, 409, 420
Framers, of the Constitution
anti-democratic sentiments, 152
aspirations, 22
background and education, 247,
252–53
belief in republicanism, 18, 45,
49–52
disagreement on basis of rights, 124
education and classical learning,
12–13, 14–15, 16, 17, 52, 241
influence of Blackstone’s
Commentaries on, 32–33
influence of Continental thinkers
on, 47–49
interest in checks and balances, 19,
21
modification of Montesquieu’s
principles, 49
points of disagreement among, 255
rejection of reserved power of
executive, 41–42
religion, 247
value of virtue, 19
Index
France, 47–48, 256, 318, 319
Constituent Assembly, 148
radicalism, 47–48, 492
Franchise, restricted, in colonies, 98,
101
Frankfurter, Felix, 100
Franklin, Benjamin, 108, 121, 252
and Declaration of Independence,
122
deism, 109
and Pennsylvania constitution, 142,
147–48
work on Great Compromise, 264
Free blacks, abolition of voting rights
for, 136
Freedom of assembly, 409, 417–18, 426
Freedom of movement, in Magna
Charta, 68–69
Freedom of re