duty, 479.
Allegiance, 477.
how performed, 487.
and protection mutual, 477.
local, 482.
natural, 477.478.
Alliance between church and state, 271. Bracton, when and why he wrote, 308.
Anabaptifs, 554. 560.
their doctrines, 555. Anathema, its nature and effects, 258. Ancestors. Their anxiety to perpe- tuate the principles of the revolu- tion, 179. Antiquity not conclufive evidence of truth, 10. 75.
prefumption in favour of opi- nions, 124. America, 480. Appeals to Rome, 273. Appointment of the king to bishopricks, formerly confirmed by the pope, 105.
Bribery, caution against it, 446. fouree of, 446.
British conftitution defined, 145. Britons, ancient, 129. Burgesses in parliament, their election,
Bill of rights, 188. 357. Bribery in elections, 449. British, our ancestors, 84. Buchanan, his feditious principles, 568. Burke, his opinion of the want of power in the people, not tenable, 54.
Calvin, John, his feditious doctrines, 546.
Canon law, its obligations, 236, 280. Can ns of the church bind not the laity, 89. 281.
Cantons of Switzerland under demo-
cratical government, 44. Capacity of the king natural and poli- tical, 221.
Capite, tenants in, 434. Cartwright's libel upon parliament, 58.
its liberties known and certain,
Civil magiftrates bound to execute the law, 114.
eftablishment of religion, 250.
law repugnant to the law of England, 319.
incorporations, what, 37. rights only given by the ftate, 91. 226. 246. Clarendon, conftitutions of 254. Clergy, their chara&er and duties, 234. their exemptions and privi- leges, 125, 230. Coercion of the law over the commu- nity, 194. 236. Commerce, king fuperintendant of, 306. Commiffion, fpiritual, given by Christ, 256.
Commons, houfe of, 399. 402.418.. 458, 459.
their numbers, 402. 441. their gradual acquisition of power, 406. 418. 431. Commonwealth, various forms of, 148. Community, their duty and obligation to follow the dictates of God, 83.
their rights vested in thein un- alienably, 24, 68, 112, 466.
injured by the violation of the laws, 492.
majority concludes the whole,
by tacit confent fubmits to the whole, 65. Compact, original, of the people to live in fociety, 64. 201. 417.469. 618. Conge d'elire, 618.
Conqueft, founded in the tacit confent of the governed, 64, 65. Conqueft of the Britons by the Romans,
to free government, 77. 130.
Covenant in Scotland, 574. Covenanters affume the administration of justice, 575. Covenant, league and, 597. Crimes, what, 487. Crime, greatest of all crimes, to rife against the legiflator, 71. Crown, abdication of the, 175. 206. defcent of, 211.
taken metaphorically for the perfon who wears it, 484.
limitation of the, from the be- ginning, 78. Crown law, 486.
Declaration of the convention, 175. Defender of the faith, title whence,
Delegation, of all power from the people, 40. 76. 77. 196. Delegates of the nation formerly, what, 365.
Democracy, what, 44. 148.
vain efforts to establish it in England, 414. Denial of true principles, dangerous,
Defcent of the crown, 210. to females, 213. Dignity of the king, 210, 218. Diocefe, limitation of, 298. Disabilities to fit in parliament, 454.
Difcuffion of truth favourable to its cause, 48, 168. Difpenfing power of the king, 344. Difputes, moft ferious about words and general propofitions, 28. Diffenters, various forts of, 110. Diffolution of government by a con- queft, 77.
at the revolution, 201. cafes tending to it, 334. Divine right of kings, ftrained con- ftruction of, 50.
true only in the general and original fenfe of power, 51. Doctrines falfe, concerning the power of parliament, and of legislatures in general, 66.
against civil government, 533.
542. Druids, 84. Duties of perfons to follow the dictates of God, 82.
to fubmit to magiftrates, 163. of a community to have a reli-
gious establishment, 95.
ancient, of commoners, 438. of the king, in 1688, 209.
Ecclefiaftical corporations, 89. courts, 251. 256.
Edward, King II. 406.
III. 406.
VI. 410. .. I. 436..
Election of bishops, 618.
members of parliament, 400.
freedom of, 430. 445. 448.
Generaliffimo, king of land and fea forces, 307.
Gentleman, neceffary in a common- wealth, 363.
Geneva, antibifilian fchool of, 540. God, fome nations want the know. ledge of him, 27.
all power and authority origi- nally from him, 38.
Government, contempts against, 496. 498.
form of it left to the option of each nation, 44, 45. 57. 150.
it requires more power to alter an old, than to form a new one, 55. its origin, 33.
mixed form of, 150.
- - motives for confidering the na- ture of it, 15.
fociety cannot fubfift without
its perfection confifts in the difficulty of its diffolution, 154. diffolution of it by a foreign
Liberty, political, of Englishmen, con- fifts in the prefervation of their law, property, and religion, 28. Light, requifite to elevate mankind, 60. Limitation of our monarchs from the beginning, 78, 313. Lineal defcent of the crown, altered at the revolution, 191. 199. Locke, his ideas of the prevalence of principles upon young minds, 5, 6. of the state of nature, 18. Locomotion, a natural right, 68. Lollards, 534. Lords, fpiritual, 372. their right to vote in capital
cafes, 376. 384. triable by
ment, 394.
their peers in parlia
temporal, 361. 378.
Luther, Martin, his opinion of the fe- ditious doctrines and practices of the anabaptifts, 559.
Majefty of the people, 217.
of the king, 218.
Magiftrates, officers appointed by the community for executing laws, 47. 69. 70. 114. 221.
Magiftracy, generally appointed by God, 62. 69. 221.
-- to be refpected and obeyed, 69. 163.
Magna carta, 79. 233. Majority of a community binds the whole, 35. 113. 118. 120. 186.
not for the murder of Charles I.
exclufive of every poffible dif- tinction, 22. 69.
fome rights of pure nature re tained in fociety, 23. 59.
exercife of the rights of pure nature impoffible in fociety, 25. would prevent all focial vir- tue, 27.
mifapplication of the terms na- tural, and nature, productive of the greatest mischief, 29.
generally understood of the real phyfical or focial state of man, 30. infufficient to fupply our wants in fociety, 32.
Natural rights of individuals tranf- ferred to the body at large in fo- ciety, 34.
what meant by a natural prince,
Mary, queen of Scots, driven out of Natural-born subjects, 477.
Minifters impeachable in parliament,
Naturalization not by the king, 477. 482.
only by parliament, 477.
Navy, 340.
Nobility, 148. 362.
Norman conqueft did not alter our conftitution, 79. Non-conformity, 589. Non obftante, 346.
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