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626 Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 94 ‘‘The Song of the Farmer’’ (Dickinson), 251 Sources of the Constitution of the United States (Stevens), 239 South Carolina proposed amendments, 408 state constitution, 144, 146, 150, 377 Sovereignty, 23–24 Spaight, Richard Dobbs, 247 Spain, 256 Sparta, 253 Special interest groups, 342 Speech, freedom of, 90, 108, 110–11, 409, 417–18, 426, 435, 595 Speech on American Taxation (Burke), 31 Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies (Burke), 31–32 Speech to the Electors of Bristol (Burke), 37 Speedy trial, right to, 410, 422, 435 Spirit of the Laws (Montesquieu), 48–49, 441–42 Stability, 6 Stamp Act Congress, 113, 115 Stamp Act of 1765, 24, 38–39, 90, 111, 112, 139 State constitutions, first, 141–52 absence of supremacy clause, 349 Bill of Rights, 150, 411 failure to provide check and balance system, 329–30 failure to provide for amendment, 150, 162 flaws, 91, 147, 149–50 revision for expanded franchise, 136 State courts, 36 State legislatures control of by radical factions, 161 lack of leadership, 596 power of, 397 threat to judicial independence, 504 Index State militia, 318 State of the Nation address, 331 State ratifying conventions, 119, 269, 270, 383, 384 States in federal political structure, 297 as final interpreters of Constitution, 490–95 independence, 303 influence on Federal government, 353 jealousies among, 390 obligations to national government and each other, 295, 307, 309–10 powers denied to, 301–2 reserved powers of, 306, 312–13 role in the amendment process, 310–11 State sovereignty and Articles of Confederation, 91–92, 155–58 debates of in early Republic, 491, 493 Madison on, 365–70 States’ Rights, 101, 157–58, 316, 326, 494, 498 Statutory construction, principles of, 465–76 Steel Seizure Case, 339 Stephen, James Ditzjames, 411, 414 Stevens, C. Ellis: Sources of the Constitution of the United States, 239 Stocks and Pillory, Williamsburg, Virginia, 424 Storing, Herbert J. The Complete Anti-Federalist, 384, 385, 404 ‘‘The Constitution and the Bill of Rights,’’ 461 Story, Joseph, 36, 414, 419, 497, 526 on Blackstone, 470