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INDEX

Abolitionists, 242 ff.

Account of Isaac Newton's Philosophic
Discoveries, by Colin
Maclaurin, 49.

Adams, John, 4, 24, 123, 124, 125,
126, 129, 135-37, 140, 151 ff.,
194, 212. Autobiography, 119,
135, 159. Diary, 119.

Adams, Samuel, 98, 100, 101.

Alogrotti, Count, Il newtonianismo
per le dame, 46.

American Philosophical Society,
158.

Answer to the Declaration of the
American Congress, by John
Lind, 228.

Anti-slavery movement, 241 ff.

Aquinas, Thomas, 37.

Assembly of Massachusetts Bay,
Circular Letter, 95,

Assembly of New York suspended,
96.

Astronomy Explained upon Newton's
Principles, by James Ferguson,
46.

Autobiography of John Adams,
119, 135, 159.

Beccaria, A., 236.

Bentham, Jeremy, Fragment on
Government, 235, 236.

Bentley, Richard, 43, 76.

Bernoulli, Daniel, 42.

Bernouilli, John, 42.

Bismarck, Prince, 275.

Blackstone, Sir Wm., 107, 109.

Bloch, Leon, La philosophie de
Newton, 48.

Bonald, Vicomte de, 258 ff.
Théorie du pouvoir, 260.

Bossuet, J.-B., Politique tirée de
l'Écriture Sainte, 31, 32.

Burnett, Thomas, An Essay on
Government, v.

Calhoun, John C., Disquisition
on Government, 249 ff.

Calvin, John, 32, 33.

Cambridge University, 32.

Cavour, Camillo, 275.

Channing, W. E., 242.

Chateaubriand, F.-A., 30.

Choate, Rufus, 201, 244.

Circular Letter of the Massachusetts
Bay Assembly, 95.

Civil Government, by John Locke,
36, 63 ff.

Coercive Acts, 114.

Colden, C., 96.

Collections des meilleurs dissertations,
etc. by C. Leber, 267.

Commissioners of the Customs, 92.

Committee of Five, 135, 160.

Compact theory of government,
30 ff, 63 ff., see Natural Rights,
Nature.

Condorcet, Marquis de, 230, 232.

Congress, First Continental, 114,
115, 119, 121-124.

Second Continental, 125, 126,
171, 172, 174, 208, 209.

Stamp Act, 89.

Considerations on the Nature and
Extent of the Legislative Authority
of the British Parliament,
by James Wilson, 105 ff.

Considerations on the Propriety of
Imposing Taxes in the British
Colonies for the Purpose of
Raising a Revenue by Act of
Parliament, by Daniel Dulany,
86 ff.

Constitution a `covenant with
death,' 241.

Constitutions, State, 239, 240.

Continental Congress. See
Congress.

Contract theory of government.
See Compact.

Contrat Social, by Rousseau, 65.

Copernicus, N., 39.

Cooper, Samuel, 226.

Customs Commissioners, 92.

Darwin, 6, 41, 43, 47, 274.

Deane, Silas, 230.

Declaration of Independence, 105,
108, 113, 115. Adams' copy
of, 140, Adams' criticism of,
24; analysis of, 8 ff., Committee
of Five, 4, 135, 151, 157, 159,
160; Congress debates, 170,
208; Congress Amends, 174,
208; Congress adopts, 172;
contemporary opinion of, 226 ff.;
criticism of, 224; `fair copy'
of, 136, 139 ff.; French influence
on, 27, 79; influence of
in South America, 238; Jefferson's
reply to Adams' strictures
on, 25, Lee copy of, 158 ff.;
literary qualities of, 194 ff.;
Locke's influence on, 27, Marxian
doctrine of class conflict
and the, 277, natural rights
philosophy and the, see Natural
Rights, Nature; parchment,
copy of, 185, philosophy of the,
8 ff., 202, 233 ff., 277, purpose
of, 5, 6, `Rough Draft' of,
137 ff., 141 ff.; signers of the,
184, 192, 193; slave trade and
the, 212; State constitutions
and the, 239 ff., texts of,
5 ff., 141, 160, 173, 174, 185,
title of, 4, 5.

Declaration of Rights of the first
Continental Congress, 115, 119,
121-124.

Declaration of the Causes and
Necessity of Taking up Arms,
126.

Declaration of the Rights of Man
and the Citizen, 231, 232.

Declaratory Act, 91.

DeMaistre, J., v, 279,

Desaguliers, J. T., Mathematical
Elements of Natural Philosophy,
45; The Newtonian System of
the World, 45.

Descartes, R., 40, 42, 75.

Dew, Thomas, 255; An Essay on
Slavery, 247, 248.

Diary of John Adams, 119.

Dickinson, John, 96, 101, 123,
125, Letters from a Farmer in
Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants
of the British Colonies, 93.

Disquisition on Government, by
J. C. Calhoun, 249.

Droysen, G., 266.

Dulany, Daniel, 86, 87, 118.

East India Co., 113.

Elemens de la philosophie de Neuton,
by Voltaire, 43.

Essay Concerning Human Understanding,
by John Locke, 53 ff.

Essay on Slavery, by Thomas
Dew, 247, 248.

Essay on Government, by Thomas
Burnett, v.

`Fair copy' of the Declaration,
136, 139.

Farmer's Letters. See Dickinson.

Ferguson, James, Astronomy explained
upon Newton's Principles,
46.

Filmer, Sir Robert, Patriarcha,
27, 28.

Fragment on Government, by J.
Bentham, 235, 236.

France, 27, 129, 229 ff.

Franklin, Benjamin, 4, 100-104,
133, 135, 137, 149, 151, 208.

Fox, Charles J., 228.

Gage, General, 114.

Galileo, 39.

Garcilasso de la Vega, 69.

Garrison, William Lloyd, 241.

s'Gravesande, W. J., Physices
elementa mathematica, 45.

Hammond, J. H., 245.

Hanna, John, 46.

Hegel, G., 271, 272.

Higher law, idea of the, 242 ff.,
277.

Hillsborough, Earl of, 95.

Historians of the nineteenth century
and the Declaration, 266 ff.

Histoire des français, by J. C. L.
Sismondi, 267, 268.

Historic Rights, idea of, 255, 263,
265, 266 ff.

History and Political thought, 61,
266.

History of the Roman Law, by
F. C. von Savigny, 263.

Hobbes, Thomas, 70.

Hopkins, Stephen, 82, 83.

Hume, David, 236.

Hutchinson, Thomas, 82, 84;
Strictures upon the Declaration
of the Congress at Philadelphia,
227, 228.

Independence voted, 3, 129. See
Declaration of Independence.

Institutes of Christianity, by John
Calvin, 33.

Internal and external taxes, 90-93.

Intolerable Acts, 114.

Introduction to the Newtonian Philosophy,
by Benjamin Martin, 46.

Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 25, 116 ff.,
171-172, 194, 217.

Jenyns, Soame, The Objection to
the Taxation of our American
Colonies Briefly Considered, 86.

Jesuits, 32.

`John Thompson, Hatter,' Franklin's
story of, 208.

Johnstone, Governor, 228.

Kentucky Constitution, 239.

Kepler, Johann, 39.

Lafayette, Marquis de, 23.

Lang, Andrew, 56.

Languet, H. Vindiciae contra
tyrannos, 33.

La philosophie de Newton, by Leon
Bloch, 48.

Law, mediæval idea of 37, 38.
See Natural Rights, Natural
Law, Nature.

Leber, C. Collection des meilleurs
dissertations, 267.

Lee, R. H. 158.

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
to the Inhabitants of the
British Colonies, by J. Dickinson,
93 ff., 118.

Levellers, 34.

Lexington, Battle of, 125.

Lieber, Francis, Political Ethics,
255, 256.

Lincoln, A., 215, 243.

Lind, John, An Answer to the Declaration
of the American Congress,
228 ff.

Literary History of the American
Revolution, by M. C. Tyler,
224.

Livingston, P., 129.

Livingston, R. R., 4, 135.

Locke, John, 27, 29, 35, 63 ff., 75,
108; Of Civil Government, 36,
An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding, 53 ff.

Maclaurin, Colin, An Account of
Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical
Discoveries, 49.

Maclay, W., 217.

Madison, J., 135.

Magna carta, 86.

Mahew, J., 75, 77, 78.

Martin, B., Introduction to the
Newtonian Philosophy, 46.

Marx, K., 277.

Massachusetts Bay Assembly, 95.

Massachusetts Constitution, 239.

Mathematical Elements of the Newtonian
Philosophy, by J. T.
Desaguliers, 45.

Mazzini, G., 275.

Milton, J., Tenure of Kings and
Magistrates, 34, 35.

Mirabeau, H.-G. R., 231.

Montaigne, M., 62.

MSS. History of Virginia, by Edmund
Randolph, 118.

Natural Law, 26. See Natural
Rights, Nature.

Natural Religion, 61, 62.

Natural Rights, Declaration of
Independence and the theory
of, 8, 98 ff., 202 ff., Eighteenth
century ideas of, 26 ff., 227, 228,
235; Nineteenth century ideas
of, 233-258, 273, 276, 277.

Natural Theology, by C. J. Webb,
55.

Nature, concept of Burnett on,
v; mediæval and eighteenth
century ideas of, 37 ff.; nineteenth
century ideas of, 247 ff.,
259, Pascal on, v.

New Hampshire Constitution, 239.

Newton, I., 40, 75.

Newtonian System of the World,
by J. T. Desaguliers, 45.

Newtonianismo per le dame, by
Count Alogrotti, 46.

Newtonianisme pour les dames, 46.

New York Assembly, 96.

Non-intercourse policy, 128.

Objections to the Taxation of our
American Colonies Briefly Considered,
by Soame Jenyns, 86

Otis, J., 133.

Parliamentary taxation, 81, 85 ff.,
90 ff.

Pascal, B., Pensées, v.

Patriarcha, by Sir Robert Filmer,
28.

Pensées, by Pascal, v.

Petition of the second Continental
Congress, 126, 127.

Physices elementa mathematica, by
S'Gravesande, 45.

Pickering, T., 135.

Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 93, 118.

Political Ethics, by Francis Lieber,
255, 256.

Politique tirée de l'Écriture Sainte,
by Bossuet, 32.

Pollock, Sir Frederick, Science of
Politics, 28.

Pope, A., 59.

Principia, by Isaac Newton,
40 ff.

Prohibitory Act, 127.

Pro-slavery political philosophy,
245 ff.

Quartering Act, 96.

Quincy, Josiah, 75.

Quincy, Samuel, Twenty Sermons,
77.

Randolph, Edmund, MSS History
of Virginia, 118.

Randolph, Peyton, 117.

Ranke, Leopold von, 268 ff.

Representation, doctrine of `virtual,'
87 ff.

Revolution, right of, 7, 8.

Rights of the Colonies Examined,
by Stephen Hopkins, 82, 83.

Ross, Rev. Frederick, 246.

`Rough Draft' of the Declaration,
137 ff, 141.

Rousseau, J.-J., 30, 65, 257, 259.

Rutledge, J., 120.

Savigny, F. C. von, 268, History
of the Roman Law, 263; Vom
Beruf unserer Zeit fur Gesetzgebung
und Rechtswissenschaft,
263, System des heutigen
romischen Rechts, 264.

Sermons, political ideas popularized
in, 76, 78.

Scots Magazine, 228.

Sherman, R., 4, 135.

Science of Politics, by Sir Frederick
Pollock, 28.

Sismondi, J. C. L. Histoire des
français, 267, 268.

Slave trade, 212.

South American revolutions and
the Declaration, 238.

Spencer, H., 276.

Stamp Act, 85, 90, 91, 101.

Stamp Act Congress, 90.

State Constitutions and natural
rights philosophy, 239, 240.

Strictures upon the Declaration of
the Congress at Philadelphia,
by Thomas Hutchinson, 227,
228.

Sugar Act, 81, 90.

Summary View of the Rights of
British America, by Thomas
Jefferson, 116 ff.

System des heutigen romischen
Rechts, by F. C. Savigny, 264.

Taxation, 81, 85, 90 ff.

Tea, 113.

Tenure of Kings and Magistrates,
by John Milton, 34, 35.

Théorie du pouvoir, by Vicomte de
Bonald, 260.

Theory of Light and Colours, 47.

Thoreau, H. D., 242.

Townshend Acts, 92.

Twenty Sermons, by Samuel
Quincy, 77.

Tyler, M. C., Literary History of
the American Revolution, 224.

Vindiciae contra tyrannos, 33.

Virginia Constitutional Convention,
235.

`Virtual' representation, 87.

Voltaire, 42-44, 61, 62; Elemens de
la philosophie de Neuton, 43, 46.

Vom Beruf unserer Zeit fur Gesetzgebung
und Rechtswissenschaft,
by F. C. von Savingy, 263.

Warren, J., 126.

Washington, Geo., 126.

Webb, C. J., Natural Theology,
55.

Whipple, W., 226.

Wilson, J., Considerations on the
Nature and Extent of the Legislative
Authority of the British
Parliament, 105 ff.

Wythe, G., 129.

Zubly, J. J., 128.