Index
Methodists, 109
Metternich, Clemens von, 54
Meyers v. United States, 474
Michelangelo: ‘‘The Slave,’’ 95
Middle colonies, 97
Mifflin, Thomas, 119
Militia, 419, 436, 451–52
Mill, John Stuart, 317–18, 319
Miranda rule, 422
Missouri Compromise of 1820, 482
‘‘Model Parliament,’’ 26–27
Monroe, James
champion of federalism, 319
Monroe Doctrine, 500
study of constitutions of antiquity,
16
Montesquieu, Charles, 331
Considerations on the Grandeur of the
Romans and Their Decline, 18
notion of separate judicial power,
329
separation of powers doctrine, 49,
331, 372–74, 448
on slavery, 133
Spirit of the Laws, 48–49, 441–42
Moral decay, 595
Moral equality, 135
Morning prayer, U.S. Senate, 1903, 416
Morris, Gouverneur, 249, 258
accounts of French Revolution,
53–54
Committee of Style, 269
on mode of electing executive, 267
participation in writing of State
constitution, 142
Morris, Robert, 53, 142, 247, 249
Moses, 5
Napoleonic Code, 35
National churches, 416–17
Nationalists. See Federalists
‘‘Nationalization,’’ 325
621
National Labor Relations Board, 342,
345
Native Americans, in Northwest
Ordinance, 459
Natural born citizen, 471, 473
Natural law tradition, 125–26, 477–78
Natural rights philosophy
in Declaration of Independence,
118, 124, 125, 130–31, 132, 139
invoked by American revolutionary
leaders, 46–47
Navigation Acts, 104
Neagle, David, 554
Necessary and Proper Clause, 302–4,
390, 398–99, 555–56
New Deal, 322, 342, 344
New England, township system of
local government, 108
New Hampshire
proposed amendments, 408
state constitution, 144, 146, 147, 150,
374
view of western lands as common
property, 153
New Jersey
state constitution, 144, 146, 375
view of western lands as common
property, 153
New Jersey (Paterson) Plan, 241, 249,
256, 262–63, 278–80
Newspapers, in colonies, 110
New York
claim of western lands, 152, 154
proposed amendments, 408
state constitution, 91, 146, 147,
148–49, 267, 375
New York Journal, 11, 389
New York v. United States, 324
Nineteenth Amendment, 102, 563–64,
574, 583
Ninth Amendment, 382, 410, 423–25
Nixon, Richard, 589