Index
Savage, Edward, 564
Scalawags, 575
Scalia, Antonin, 324
Scutage, 64
Search and seizure, 420, 426, 435
Seat-belt laws, 578
Sea-to-sea clauses, 115, 152–54
Secession doctrine, 137, 493, 499
Second Amendment, 409, 419
Second Continental Congress, 119–21
Second Treatise of Civil Government
(Locke), 46–47, 125, 128–29, 132
Sectional differences, 390, 491
Securities and Exchange Commission,
342
Seditious libel, 492
Self-government, local, 89–90, 97,
107–8
Self-incrimination, freedom from, 410,
420–21, 426, 435
Senate, United States, 578
confirmation of presidential
appointments, 269, 333
direct election of, 578–79, 580–81
and House of Lords, 25
indirect election of, 331, 579–80
method of election, 331
power over treaties, 333
six-year term, 264
See also Congress, United States
Separate but equal doctrine, 574
Separation of powers doctrine, xix,
100, 244, 296, 327–36
American system of, 295
critical evaluation, 337–41
in English vs. American systems, 24
future of, 341–47
lack of in first state constitutions,
149
as primary characteristic of
constitution, 7
in Roman Republic, 19
625
Separatists, 96, 97
Seventeenth Amendment, 323, 353,
578–82
Seventh Amendment, 410, 422
Seven Years’ War (French and %