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.
Canons 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,
583.

its liberties known and cer-

tain, 234.
Civil magiftrates bound to execute the
law, 114.

270.

eftablishment of religion, 250,

law repugnant to the law of Eng-
land, 319.

incorporations, what, 37.
rights only given by the ftate,
91, 226, 246.
Clarendon, conftitutions of, 254.
Clergy, their character 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 Chrift,
256.

Commons, houfe of, 399, 402, 418,
458, 450.

their numbers, 402, 441,
their gradual acquifition of
power, 406, 418, 431.
Commonwealth, various forms of, 148.
Community, their duty and obligation
"to follow the dictates of God, 83.

their rights vefted in them
unalienably, 24, 68, 112, 466.

injured by the violation of

the laws, 492.

majority concludes the

whole, 35, 64.

by tacit confent fubmits to

the whole, 65.
Compact, original, of the people to live
in fociety, 64, 201, 417, 469, 618.
Congé d'elire, 618.
Conqueft, founded in the tacit confent
of the governed, 64, 65.
Conqueft of the Britons by the Romans,

77.

fole, 222.

Covenant in Scotland, 574.
Covenanters affume the administration
of justice, 575.
Covenant, league and, 597.
Grimes, 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
beginning, 78.
Crown law, 486.

Declaration of the convention, 175.
Defender of the faith, title whence,
226.

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 eftao.h it in
England, 414.
Denial of true principles, dangerous,

Difcuffion of truth favourable to its
caufe, 48, 168.
Difpenfing power of the king, 344.
Difputes, moft ferious about words and
general propofitions, 28.
Diffenters, various forts f, 110.
Diffolution of government by a con-
quest, 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 eftablishment, 95.

ancient, of commoners, 438.
of the king, in 1688, 209.

Ecclefiaftical corporations, 89.
courts, 251, 256.

Edward, King II, 406.

III. 406.

VI.
I. 436.

410.

Election of bishops, 618.

422.

members of parliament, 400,

Executive power, 210, 482.

concentered in the crown, 484-
Extremities of doctrines treacherous in
argument, 50, 71, 159, 331, 475.

Feudal policy formed on the principles
of freedom, 79.

tenures abolished, 416.
Firft-fruits, 476.
Fifb-fonds, 490,

Force of laws, 12, 92, 94, 163, 197.
Fortescue, Sir John, his fublime ideas
of our conftitution, 3.
Forfeiture of the crown, 175, 206, 217.
Franchije, elective. (Vid. right of
election.)

Freedom in the adoption of religion, 85.
Fruit, stealing of, 490.

mixed form of, 150.
motives for confidering the na-
ture of it, 15.

fociety cannot fubfift without
it, 55:

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its perfection confifts in the
difficulty of its diffolution, 154.
diffolution of it by a foreign

enemy, 77.

at the revolution, 201.
Great council, 364.
Greece, popular or democratical go-
vernments there, 44.

Habeas corpus a&t, 416.
Head of the church of England, 225

230, 275, 284, 306.
Henry, King IV. 406.

V. 406.

VI. 406.

VII. 407, 439.

VIII, defends the fupremacy of
the Pope, 227, 409.