Corruption of the legislators, 171.

Curtailment of prerogatives of the Executive, 51.

Dangers before America, 237.

Decline of the Executive office, 55.

Defects of the plan of popular education, 219.

Degradation of popular literature, 253.

Degradation of the franchise, 121.

Denominational schools, 227.

De Tocqueville's admissions, 155.

De Tocqueville's errors, 263-266.

De Tocqueville's statements, 261.

Devices for stifling debate, 151.

Difference of suffrage between England and America, 137.

Direct power of the people, 5.'

Doubtful interpretation of the Constitution, 23.

Early apprehensions for the Union, 243.

Education indispensable in democracies, 225.

Education in Massachusetts, 209.

Effects of the compulsory system of education, 215.

Elasticity of the people, 283.

Electing preachers, 205.

England and America, 257.

England's duty with regard to popular education, 229.

Episcopal Church, the, 201.

Equal suffrage not equal representation, 131.

Estrangement of the South, 247.

Executive, the, 35-57.

Fabrication or purchase of votes, 125.

Failure of representation, 81.

Failure of the representative system, 139.

Federal Judiciary, the, 95.

"Filibustering" in Congress, 153.

Formation and division of the Legislative, 71.

Forms of the House of Representatives, 145.

Fruits of the educational system, 217.

Futility of checks and balances, 77.

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General effect of party misrule, 175.

Gloomy predictions of Americans, 245.

Hamilton's delusions, 161.

Helplessness of the Judiciary, 101

Hopes of the people, 241.

Ill feeling against England, 259.

Increase of Nonconformist sects, 189.

Influence of French ideas, 255.

Inherent weakness of the Executive, 39.

Innovations of Congress in the Judiciary, 97.

Insufficient payment of the clergy, 195.

Intolerance of free discussion, 165.

Judiciary, the, 89-108.

Justice Story's predictions, 107.

Legislative, the, 69-88.

Lesson of secession, 269.

Licence allowed to speakers, 149.

Maintenance of churches, 193.

Management of the debt, 279.

Mischiefs of protection, 281.

Misrepresentations of critics, 7.

Mode of electing the President, 57.

Modern changes, 17.

National ideal, 249.

Necessity of a free Judiciary, 99.

New era in the government, 267.

Nomination of Members of Congress, 119.

Outrages of workmen, 239.

Party control over the judges, 103.

Party despotism, 143.

Party government, 142-176.

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Persecution in Massachusetts, 181.

Persecutions of Quakers, 185.

Plan of electing judges, 91.

Plan of the elective system, 113.

Political capacities of Americans, 11.

Politics and the Pulpit, 203.

Political ostracism of able men, 169.

Popular education, 207-229.

Popular education an experimental work, 223.

Power of amendment, 33.

Popularity of the government, 13.

Power of the Cabinet, 65.

Power of the legislature, 45.

Present laws concerning religion, 191.

President elected by popular vote, 117.

President, the, and his ministers, 63.

President Jackson's warning, 271.

President Johnson's errors, 41.

President Lincoln's tact, 163.

Presidential patronage, 47.

Pretentiousness of the system of popular education, 221.

Prison for truants, 213.

Prospects of the Union, 242-288.

Protective fallacies, 233.

Protests of Constitutionalists, 275.

Qualifications of electors, 111.

Republicanism idealised, 15.

Repudiation and the debt, 277.

Revolutions in the Constitution, 273.

Sectional differences, 21.

State, the, and the Union, 19-34.

State independence a national security, 29.

State rights, 25.

State support of the Church, 179.

State support withdrawn, 187.

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Strikes and discontent, 235.

Subordination of the President to Congress, 53.

Subserviency of Members of the Legislative, 85.

Suppression of independent opinion in the Legislative, 83.

Theory of electing the President, 115.

Theory, the, of the Government, 1-18.

Tyranny of the majority, 157.

Tyranny of numbers, 127.

Universal Suffrage, 109-141.

Universal suffrage condemned by American writers, 141.

Use of Presidential patronage by Mr. Johnson, 49.

Uselessness of the State Convention, 31.

Various laws in States, 93.

Voluntary principle in religion, 177-206.

Washington's anxiety for the Executive, 37.

Webster's theories, 135.

Women and boys as voters, 133.