INDEX.
Aberdeen, Lord, and civil service reform, 285.
Accounts, British public, how audited, 144, how kept, 145; French public, how kept, 145; federal, how audited, 175-179; how kept formerly, 179.
Adams, John, on the constitutional balances, 12, 13: influence of, as President, 41; claim of originality for the Constitution, 55, 249.
Adams, Samuel, 209.
“Address” of early Presidents to Senate, 239.
Administration, talents for, not encouraged in U.S., 199, 200; questions of, now predominant, 203; divorced from legislation in U.S., 251-253; training necessary for, 255, 256; contrasted with legislation, 273, 274; not less important than legislation, 297; must be debated, 302; tendency towards widening sphere of national, 316, 317.
Alabama claims, in Senate, 51.
Alien and Sedition Laws, 21.
“American system” of protective tariffs, 167.
Appointing power of Speaker of House, 103; history of, of Speaker, 104; accustomed use of, for party ends, 108.
Appropriation, bills, “general,” 150; former methods of, 151; stinginess of Congress in, 152, 159; bills, reported at any time, 153; bills, specially debated, 78, 154, 155, 183, 184; bills, in the Senate, 155-158.
Appropriations, debate of, 78, 154, 155, 183, 184; “white-button mandarins” on Committee on, 111; Committee on, consider estimates, 149; “permanent,” 152, 153; Committees on, relations between, and financial officers of the govt., 160-164; reports of Committee on, preferred to reports of Committee of Ways and Means, 174, 183, 184.
Bagehot, Walter, on living reality and paper description of English Constitution, 10; description of Parliament by, applied to Congress, 44; on time required for opinions, 130; on public opinion, 187; on House of Lords, 220; on bicameral system, 221, 222; on technicalities of constitutional interpretation in U.S., 243; on questions asked in the Commons, 300; on influence of Geo. III. on Constitution of U.S., 309; on multiplicity of authorities in American Constitution, 309, 310.
Balance, between state and federal powers, See ‘Federal and State governments;’ between judiciary and other branches of federal govt., 34 et seq.; between state legislatures and the Senate, 40; of the people against their representatives, 40; of presidential electors against the people, 40; between Executive and Congress, 41; between Senate and House of Representatives, real, 228.
