Index
Letters of Fabius (Dickinson), 246
Leviathan (Hobbes), 128–29
Liberal party, 31
Liberte, egalite et fraternite, 53, 58
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Liberty
defined, 4
individual, 25–26, 135
in Magna Charta, 64, 72
political, 135
varying meanings of, 127
Liberty Cap, 318
Liberty pole, 318
Limited constitutional monarchy,
American case for, 44
Limited government, principle of,
xviii, 327
Limited powers, 394
Lincoln, Abraham, 569
challenge of Supreme Court
interpretations of Constitution,
489
on the Declaration of Independence,
124, 132
Emancipation Proclamation, 570
suspension of writ of habeas
corpus, 300
and Thirteenth Amendment, 561
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 131–32
Lind, John, 130
Literacy tests, 576
Litigiousness, 597
Lives of the Most Noble Grecians and
Romans (Plutarch), 17
Livingston, William, 117, 119
Local government
self-government, 89–90, 97
township system, 108
Locke, John, 30, 45, 128, 132–33, 139
Lockner v. New York, 573
London Company, 92, 93
Loose construction, 464, 496–500
Louisiana, legal system, 34
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Louis XVI, 57
Loyalists, American, 44, 46
Luttrell, James, 141
Lyon, Mathew, 330
Madison, James
and Annapolis Convention, 163
‘‘as the Father of the Constitution,’’
142, 249
and Bill of Rights, 408, 411, 590–91
challenge of Alien and Sedition
Acts, 491–93
champion of federalism, 319
‘‘Congressional Pay Amendment,’’
591–92
Constitutional guard against
subversion, 336
contributions to the Federalist
Papers, 10, 11, 18, 49, 384
on difference between a democracy
and a republic, 254
doctrine of Interposition, 493
establishment of inferior courts, 268
Federalist No. 10, 357–64, 382, 404–6
Federalist No. 40, 403
Federalist No. 45, 307, 322, 365–70,
395, 397–98
Federalist No. 47, 371–78, 397
Federalist No. 48, 329–30, 337–38
Federalist No. 51, 337
founder of Hampden-Sidney
College, 44
modifications of Virginia Plan, 263
on nature of the new union, 394–95
and new form of general
government, 256
Notes of the Debates in the Federal
Convention, 469
opposition to Great Compromise,
264
on political systems of Greece and
Rome, 16