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