The Constitution of England

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351 index Act of Union (between England and Scotland): Essay Containing a few strictures on the Union of Scotland with England; and on the present situation of Ireland (1786), De Lolme, xvii; parliamentary seats since, 56, 158n; Scottish legislation regarding monarchy prior to, 265n acts of Parliament (written or statute law), 84, 86, 105, 113, 160–66. See also Act of Union; Bill of Rights; Charter of Forests; Confirmationes Chartarum; Coventry Act; Habeas Corpus Act; Insolvent Debtors Act; Magna Carta; Merton, Statute of; Military Tenures Act; Regulating Act; Settlement, Act of; Statute of Marlebridge; treason; Triennial Act Adams, John, ix Adolphus Frederick (king of Sweden), 321n Aelius, 96 Albizzi, 142 Alexander the Great, 206 Alfred the Great, 23 Amalphi, discovery of Justinian’s Pandects at, 81 ambassadors: immunity from prosecution , 252n; king’s power to send and receive, 63 America. See United States Amuraths (sultans), 296 Anglo-Saxon England, 23–24 Anne (queen of England), 248n, 252n, 263n, 265n, 266, 269–70 Antiochus and Popilius, 272n appeal of murder, 74n Appian, 236n Appii, 191 Appius Claudius, 96 Aquilius, proconsul of Syria, 236 Archimedes, 154 aristocracy. See lords Aristotle, 317n armed forces. See military Arthur, Duke of Britanny, 30n assembly, right of, 285–86 Athens, 141, 142n, 156n, 188n, 227, 253n, 276 Augurs, 189n Aula Regis, 28, 60n, 86, 90 axes and fasces, 157n, 221 Bacon, Francis, 243, 247n Bajazets (sultans), 296 balance of powers. See equilibrium theory barber of Piraeus, 188n Barebones, Praise-God, 282n Barebones Parliament, 280, 281n Beauchamp, Francis Ingram Seymour Conway, Lord, 92, 93n Beccaria, Cesare, 130n 352 index Belknap, Sir Robert, 243n benefit of clergy, 216 benevolences, 49 Bennet, Sir John, 247 Benson, Henry, 247 Berkeley (Judge), 243, 244n Berne, canton of, 161n Beyazids or Bajazets (sultans), 296 Bill of Rights, 53–54n, 70, 78n, 152, 215n, 255n bishops in Parliament, 57 black or white days, 183 Blackstone, William: on civil law, 101n, 109n; on criminal law, 131n, 133n, 138n; on execution of laws, 241, 242n, 252n; on habeas corpus, 138n, 241, 242n; on legislative power, 60; Letter of Junius to, 127n; liberty, unbounded nature of, 293n; on limitations on royal prerogative, 69n; on private liberty, 80n; on right of resistance, 215 Boileau, Jacques, xvi–xvii bondage in Rome, 222 Borough English, 86 Bracton, Henry de, 85 British Empire in Europe, The (1787), De Lolme, xvii Brittany, 331n Buckingham, assassination of Duke of, 131n, 254n Buondelmonti, 142 Burnet, Gilbert, 245, 262, 302n Busby, Thomas, xix Bute, Lord, 18 Caius (Gaius) Gracchus, 181, 188, 227, 236 Calpurnius Piso (Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus), 237 Cannon, John, xix capias, writ of, 90 capital punishment, 134, 234, 253n, 254 Carlisle, Earl of, 335n Carrington, Nathan, 251–52n Carthage, 148n, 181n, 196, 304 Cataline conspiracy, 253n censure, value of court of, 199–200. See also press, liberty of Cerchi, 142 Cethegi, 191 Chamberlayne, Edward, 342n Chancery, Court of, 99, 100, 108, 110, 112, 113 Charitable Corporation, 248n Charlemagne, 26 Charles I (king of England): attempt to arrest parliamentary opponents by, 298n; criminal justice and, 136– 37; English constitution and deposition of, 316, 324; execution of laws and, 241, 243; historical overview of English constitution and, 48–50; limitations on royal prerogatives and, 69–70; monarchy in England, peculiar nature of, 273, 274, 297; Parliament, effort to do without, 329; revolutions in England tending to ensure liberty and, 230. See also Civil War Charles II (king of England): criminal justice and, 137; execution of laws and, 244, 245n; historical overview of English constitution and, 51–52; limitations on royal prerogatives and, 65, 74n; monarchy in England, peculiar nature of, 261, 268–69; press, liberty of, 201, 212; reestablishment of English constitution, 316; revolutions in England tending to ensure liberty and, 230 Charles V (king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor), 42 Charles XI (king of Sweden), 264 index 353 Charles XII (king of Sweden), 264, 265n Charles of Lorraine, 26 Charter of Forests, 28n, 35, 37n Chaulnes, Duke of, 331n Christina (queen of Sweden), 264 Church: bishops’ seats in Parliament, 57; king as head of, 63, 73 Churchill, John, Duke of Marlborough , 149n, 269–70 Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero): on augurs, 189n; on best form of government , 340–41n; on Censorial Tribunal, 200n; on civil law, 95, 100n, 107n, 111; on execution of laws in Rome, 234, 236, 237; prosecution of Verres by, 188n; on representatives of people, 160n, 180n, 182n Cincinnatus (Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus ), 305 civil disturbances. See revolutions...