624
Reflections on the Revolution in France
(Burke), 53
Reid v. Covert, 479
Reign of Terror, 53–54, 57
Religion, freedom of, 90, 108–10, 140,
409, 415–17, 458, 595
Religious discrimination, 109
Removal power, 473–74
Rent-control, 421
Report and Resolutions, Hartford
Convention, 495
Representation
English theory of, 89, 98
equal, 154
geographic, 89, 99–100
proportional, 154
slavery and, 270
of states in Congress, 244
system of in Virginia Plan, 257
taxation without, 26, 27
Representative democracy, 316
Representative government, 1, 26, 52,
89, 328
Republic, 253–54
vs. pure democracy, 361–64
Republican-Democratic Party, 384,
491, 496
Republicanism, 1, 18, 327, 360, 386, 388
and corruption, 18, 19
introduction of to colonies, 89
Requisitions, 270
Reserved (residual) powers, 305–6,
381, 394, 411, 425–26
Residency requirement, for elected
representatives, 89, 100
Resolution for Independence of May
1776, 125
Reynolds v. Sims, 100
Rhode Island
colonial government, 98
lack of participation in
Constitutional Convention, 491
Index
state constitution, 144, 148
view of western lands as common
property, 153
Rights
of the accused, 421–22
to bear arms, 409, 419, 435
to counsel, 410, 422
versus duties, 426–27
of persons, 420–21
to public assembly, 409, 426
retained by the people, 423–25
retained by the states, 425–26
of revolution, 129
Rights of Man, 53, 58
The Rights of Man (Paine), 59
Rights of the British Colonies Asserted
and Proved (Otis), 34, 348–49
Roane, Spencer, 494
Robespierre, Maximillian, 44, 57
Rockefeller, Nelson, 589
Roman Catholics, 97, 109–10
Roman Empire, 21, 34
Roman law, 34–35, 47, 463, 475
Roman Republic
class struggles, 21
political concepts of drawn upon by
Framers, 17–22
Rome, 254
Romney, George, 471, 473
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 322, 323, 489,
577, 586, 588
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 47–48, 58, 129
Royal absolutism, 44
Royal African Company, 132
Royal governors, 104, 105
Royalists, 27
Rule of law, xix, 2, 295–96, 328, 346,
347–51, 403
Rules of interpretation, 463, 464–65
Russian Revolution, 53
Rutledge, John, 117, 118, 119, 142, 251,
269