Green, J. R., on Parliament and public opinion under Geo. III., 187, 188; on temper and embarrassments of the Parliament succeeding the Revolution Settlement in England, 313, 314.
Grévy, President, 248
Hall of House of Representatives, size of, 86 et seq.
Hamilton, Alex., on balance between state and national govts., 16, 17; influence of, upon early policy of govt., 21; advocacy of protective duties, 22; announces doctrine of “implied powers,” 22; 181, 259, 306, 307.
Hampden, John, 208.
Henry, Patrick, 209.
Hoar, G. F., Senator, on time for reporting given to Committees, 72; on suspension of the Rules in the House, 111, 112.
House of Commons, See ‘Commons, House of.’
House of Lords, Bagehot on the, 220.
House of Representatives, See ‘Representatives, House of.’
“Implied powers,” enunciated by Hamilton, 22; sustained national bank, 22; McCulloch v. Maryland, 23; a vigorous principle of constitutional growth, 23; effect of, upon status of States, 23, 24; practical issue of doctrine of, 25 et seq.
Internal Improvements, 28; moral effect of, upon state policy, 29; history of policy of, 165-167; sums appropriated for, 167; character of opposition to, 197.
James II., 213.
Johnson, President, contest of, with Senate, 49.
Judiciary, power of, to control Executive, 34, 35; power of, to control Congress, 35, 36; change of party color in, 37; power of Congress over, 38, 39.
Judiciary Act of 1789, 39.
Kentucky, protest of, against Alien and Sedition Laws, 21.
Leaders, absence of authoritative, in Congress, 58, 92, 205, 212, 315; lacking in parties of U. S., 187; raised up by the constitutional struggles before the war, 199 et seq.; slavery and anti-slavery, 201, 202; no offices for political, in U.S., 203; training necessary for, 255, 256; political, authority of, in England, 323.
Leadership, conditions of political, in U.S., 204 et seq.; 323; character of legislative, 206 et seq.; lack of, in Senate, 212, 213; the prize of, 214; lack of, in U.S. makes parties conglomerate, 324.
Legislation, character of, determined by privileges of Committees and necessity for haste, 74; compromise character of, in Congress, 101; conglomerate and heterogeneous, 113, 325; part of President in, by virtue of veto power, 260, 266; and administration contrasted, 273, 274; Buckle on present value of, 295; nature of present task of, 295, 296; generates legislation, 297; not more important than administration, 297; general function of, 301, 302; tendency toward widening sphere of, 316, 317.
“Log-rolling,” 169.
Lords, House of, Bagehot on, 220.
Lowell, J. R., on “government by declamation,” 318.
Macaulay, criticism of legislative leadership by, 207.
Machiavelli, on responsibility of ministers, 275.
Maclay, Wm., Sketches of First Senate by, quoted, 24, n.
McMaster, J. B., quoted, 19.