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Index
ranking of by frequency of citation
and decade, 48
Political virtue, 1, 18
Polity, 17
Pollack v. Farmer’s Loan & Trust, 577
Poll tax, 102
Poll Tax Amendment, 587
Polybius, 21
Pontiac, Chief, 110
Popular Government (Maine), 22
Populist movement, 501, 580, 581
Portugal, constitution, 4
Positivism, 127
Power, nationalization of, 306
Prayers in public schools, 558
Preemption, Doctrine of, 484–85
Presbyterians, 109
President. See Executive branch
Presidential electors. See Electoral
College system
Presidential Succession Act of 1947,
553, 585
Presidential system, of government,
24
President’s Commission on Executive,
Legislative, and Judicial Salaries,
594
Press, freedom of, 90, 108, 110–11,
140, 408, 409, 417–18, 426, 435, 595
Price, Richard, 59
Prime Minister, of England, 24
Princeton College, 148
Principles of Constitutional Law
(Cooley), 254
Printz v. United States, 324
Prior censorship, 418
Privileges and immunities clause,
Fourteenth Amendment, 572
Privy Council, 104, 105, 106
Progressive movement, 501, 580, 581
Prohibited powers, 305
Prohibition Amendment, 582
623
Proletariat, 598
Property law, 34
Property rights, 140
in Magna Charta, 66–67
Proportional representation, 154
Public education, 598
Public trial, 410
Public work programs, 323
Publius (pseud.), 18, 327, 328, 384, 393,
398, 560
Publius Valerius Publicola, 18
Pufendorf, Samuel, 47
Pure democracy, 361
Puritans, 42, 44, 96–97, 97, 108
Quakers, 97, 109, 133
Qualified veto, 332
Quartering of Troops Act, 115
Quartering troops, 409, 419–20
Quebec Act, 110, 115
Racial discrimination, 312
Racial gerrymandering, 576
Racial segregation, 574
Radical Republicans, 574–75
‘‘Raising the Liberty Pole, 1776,’’ 318
Randolph, Edmund, 248–49
refusal to sign Constitution, 272
Virginia Plan, 257
Randolph, John, 15, 350
Ranney, Austin, xvii
Ratification
of amendments, 311
of the Constitution, 9, 13, 381, 383,
406, 407
Read, George, 119
Reagan, Ronald, 489, 588
Reapportionment Amendment,
590–91
Reconstruction (Civil War)
Amendments, 308, 498, 569, 571, 575
Referendum, 343