19th Century · English
On Civil Liberty and Self-Government
On Civil Liberty and Self-Government, by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801–1889), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
Chapters
- 01Introduction to the Third Edition.prose
- 02on CIVIL Liberty and Self-government, chapter i.: introductory.prose
- 03chapter ii.: definitions of liberty.prose
- 04chapter iii.: the meaning of civil liberty.prose
- 05chapter iv.: ancient and modern liberty.—ancient, medieval, and modern states.prose
- 06chapter v.: anglican liberty.prose
- 07chapter vi.: national independence—personal liberty.prose
- 08chapter vii.: bail.—penal trial.prose
- 09chapter viii.: high treason.prose
- 10chapter ix.: communion.—locomotion, emigration.prose
- 11chapter x.: liberty of conscience.—property:—supremacy of the law.prose
- 12chapter xi.: quartering soldiers.—the army.prose
- 13chapter xii.: petition.—association.prose
- 14chapter xiii.: publicity.prose
- 15chapter xiv.: supremacy of the law.—taxation.—division of power.prose
- 16chapter xv.: responsible ministers.—courts declaring laws unconstitutional.—representative government.prose
- 17chapter xvi.: representative government, continued.—basis of property.—direct and indirect elections.prose
- 18chapter xvii.: parliamentary law and usage.—the speaker.—two houses.—the veto.prose
- 19chapter xviii.: independence of the judiciary.—the law jus, common law.prose
- 20chapter xix.: independence of jus, self-development of law, continued.—accusatorial and inquisitorial trials.—independenprose
- 21chapter xx.: independence of jus, continued.—trial by jury.—the advocate.prose
- 22chapter xxi.: self—government.prose
- 23chapter xxii.: american liberty.prose
- 24chapter xxiii.: in what civil liberty consists, proved by contraries.prose
- 25chapter xxiv.: gallican liberty.—spreading of liberty.prose
- 26chapter xxv.: the institution.—its definition.—its power for good and evil.prose
- 27chapter xxvi.: the institution, continued.—institutional liberty.—institutional local self-government.prose
- 28chapter xxvii.: effects and uses of institutional self-government.prose
- 29chapter xxviii.: dangers and inconveniences of institutional self-government.prose
- 30chapter xxix.: advantages of institutional government, farther considered.prose
- 31chapter xxx.: institutional government the only government which prevents the growth of too much power.—liberty, wealth,prose
- 32chapter xxxi.: insecurity op uninstitutional governments.—unorganized inarticulated popular power.prose
- 33chapter xxxii.: imperatorial sovereignty.prose
- 34chapter xxxiii.: imperatorial sovereignty, continued.—its origin and character examined.prose
- 35chapter xxxiv.: centralization.—influence of capital cities.prose
- 36chapter xxxv.: vox populi vox dei.prose
- 37Appendix I.: a paper on elections, election statistics, and general votes of yes or no.prose
- 38Appendix II.: a paper on the abuse of the pardoning power.prose
- 39Appendix III.: a paper on subjects connected with the inquisitorial trial and the laws of evidence.prose
- 40Appendix IV.: Magna Charta of King John, fifteenth day of june, in the seventeenth year of the king's reign, a.d. 1215.prose
- 41Magna Charta, the Great Charter, (translated as in the statutes at large,) made in the ninth year of king henry the thirprose
- 42chapter xxxvi.: A Subsidy in respect of this Charter and the Charter of the Forest granted to the King.prose
- 43cap. v.prose
- 44Appendix V.: the petition of right.prose
- 45Appendix VI.: an act for the better securing the liberty of the subject, and for prevention of imprisonments beyond the,prose
- 46Appendix VII.: bill of rights, passed 1 william and mary, sess. 2, ch. 2, 1689, 1 w. & m., 1689.prose
- 47Appendix VIII.: a declaration by the representatives of the united states of america in congress assembled.prose
- 48Appendix IX.: articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states.prose
- 49Appendix IX.: articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states, article iv.prose
- 50Appendix IX.: articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states, article v.prose
- 51Appendix IX.: articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states, article vi.prose
- 52article viii.prose
- 53article ix.prose
- 54article xiii.prose
- 55Appendix X.: constitution of the united states of america, article i.prose
- 56article ii.prose
- 57Appendix X.: constitution of the united states of america, article iii.prose
- 58Appendix X.: constitution of the united states of america, article iv.prose
- 59Appendix X.: constitution of the united states of america, article v.prose
- 60Appendix X.: constitution of the united states of america, article vi.prose
- 61Appendix X.: constitution of the united states of america, article v. (2)prose
- 62Appendix X.: constitution of the united states of america, article xii.prose
- 63article xiv.prose
- 64Appendix XI.: the french constitution, adopted and proclaimed on the twenty-fourth of june 1793. the first republican coprose
- 65of the primary assemblies.prose
- 66of the national representation.prose
- 67mode of procedure of the legislative body.prose
- 68of the making of laws.prose
- 69of the executive power.prose
- 70of the administrative authorities and the municipalities.prose
- 71of civil justice.prose
- 72of the military forces of the republic.prose
- 73French Charter of 1830, declaration of the chamber of deputies.prose
- 74public law of the french.prose
- 75forms of the king's government.prose
- 76of the chamber of peers.prose
- 77of the chamber of deputies.prose
- 78judicial regulations.prose
- 79particular rights guaranteed by the state.prose
- 80Appendix XIII.: constitution of the french republic. adopted november, 1848.prose
- 81Constitution, chapter ii.: rights of citizens guaranteed by the constitution.prose
- 82chapter iv.: of the legislative power.prose
- 83chapter v.: of the executive power.prose
- 84Constitution, chapter vi.: of the council of state.prose
- 85chapter vii.: of the interior administration.prose
- 86chapter viii.: of the judiciary power.prose
- 87chapter ix.: of the public forces.prose
- 88chapter xi.: of the revision of the constitution.prose
- 89chapter xii.: transitory arrangements.prose
- 90Appendix XIV.: the present constitution of france.prose
- 91Louis Napoleon, president of the republic. In the name of the French People.prose
- 92chapter iii.: of the president of the republic.prose
- 93chapter iv.: of the senate.prose
- 94chapter v.: of the legislative body.prose
- 95Appendix XIV.: the present constitution of france, chapter vi.: of the council of state.prose
- 96chapter viii.: general and transitory clauses.prose
- 97Third Division.—of the Legislative Body, chapter i.: meeting of the legislative body, formation and organization of the prose
- 98chapter ii.: presentation, discussion, and vote of bills.prose
- 99chapter iii.: messages and proclamations addressed to the legislative body by the president of the republic.prose
- 100chapter iv.: minutes.prose
- 101Appendix XV.: report of the french senatorial committee on the petitions to change the republic into an empire, in novemprose
- 102senatus-consultum. Proposition to modify the Constitution, in conformity with Articles 31 and 32.prose
- 103Appendix XVI.: letter of the french minister of the interior, mr. de morny, addressed to the prefects of the deparments prose