made this renunciation of arbitrary power, and which faithfully respects its pledges, a right-minded citizen may well entertain a sentiment of unqualified devotion. Such a birthright is not to be lightly regarded; but it is more than a birthright, it is a sacred trust. To maintain it may require no dangerous exposure and no cruel sacrifice, but only vigilant activity; but, if the call should come, it would be the duty of every citizen to offer freely upon the altar of its defense his possessions, his person, and his life. INDEX ence, Absolutism, no place for, in | Authority, rightful, ability of, to compel obedi- 6 true principle of, in nature of being to be ruled, 44 clared sovereignty a Authority of the State, theory of its nature, impersonality of, 89-84 as objective and im- personal, 81, 82 guarded against, 273– Barbarossa and his cour- Martinus, 68 jurisprudence of, 97– losophy of, 30–34 defect in conception of sovereignty of, 32- 33 in the individual nor in ganism, sovereignty in- herent in the, 70, 71 48 Bossuet on the divine right | Community life, primitive, 3-5 "divine right of kings," not self-conscious, 7, 8 order a necessity in, 25 yond control, 47– slow development of social conscious- ness in, 48 Community of property. See Property Conflict between religion and the State, 17-19 cial, not equally pos- sessed, 49 student of Machiavelli, Constitution, Federal, a bar to revolution, 241-245 annotated a copy of as a guarantee of rights, 169-171, 186–191 attacks upon, 200–204 on, 255,256, 257-258 effect of guarantees of, ! 198–200 extension of guarantees human culture under James Madison on, 174- 177 204–207 opposition to, 171-174 purpose of, and first ten 195 on Constitution, 13th and 14th Divine right of kings, re- amendments to, 196– jected by John Locke and Jean Jandun, 66–67 of, with imperialism, impersonal, as being no quality of the hu- alities in, 217-220 Dred Scott decision, Lin- lations of, 158-161 potence of the, 252–253 Enterprises, large, drastic Equalization, laws of, 161- 42 of Man and of the French Revolution, 108-109 triumphant, 9-12 spect, 60 preëminence of, in the seems still the basis of the State, 271-272 State, 8 constitutional, 215– least likely to be af- fected by radical legis- American Constitution Fouché, on the omnipotence France, under eleven con- olution, 239-241 |