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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872. On civil liberty and self-government. Union, NJ : Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2001 (OCoLC)952858359 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Francis Lieber |
ISBN: | 1584770708 9781584770701 |
OCLC Number: | 42780522 |
Notes: | Originally published: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1859. |
Description: | 629 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introductory -- Definitions of liberty -- The meaning of civil liberty -- Ancient and modern liberty. Ancient, medieval, and modern states -- Anglican liberty -- National independence. Personal liberty -- Bail. Penal trial -- High treason -- Communion. Locomotion, emigration -- Liberty of conscience. Property. Supremacy of the law -- Quartering soldiers. The army -- Petition. Association -- Publicity -- Supremacy of the law. Taxation. Division of power -- Responsible ministers. Courts declaring laws unconstitutional. Representative government -- Representative government continued. Basis of property. Direct and indirect elections -- Parliamentary law and usage. The speaker. Two houses. The veto -- Independence of the judiciary. The law, jus, common law -- Independence of jus, self-development of law continued. Accusatorial and inquisitorial trials. Independence of the judge -- Independence of jus continued. Trial by jury. The advocate -- Self-government -- American liberty -- In what civil liberty consists, proved by contraries -- Gallican liberty. Spreading of liberty -- The institution. Its definition. Its power for good and evil -- The institution continued. Institutional liberty. Institutional local self-government -- Effects and uses of institutional self-government -- Dangers and inconveniences of institutional self-government -- Advantages of institutional government, farther considered -- Institutional government the only government which prevents the growth of too much power. Liberty, wealth and longevity of states -- Insecurity of uninstitutional governments. Unorganized inarticulated popular power -- Imperatorial sovereignty -- Imperatorial sovereignty continued. Its origin and character examined -- Centralization. Influence of capital cities -- Vox Populi vox Dei. -- Appendix. I.A paper on elections, election statistics and general votes of yes or no -- II. A paper on the abuse of the pardoning power ; III. A paper on subjects connected with the inquisitorial trial and the laws of evidence ; IV. Magna Charta of King John ; V. The petition of right ; VI. An act for the better securing the liberty of the subject, and for prevention of imprisonments beyond the seas, commonly called "the Habeas Corpus Act" ; VII. Bill of Rights passed 1 William and Mary, sess. 2 ch. 2, 1689 ; VIII. A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled ; IX. Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states ; X. Constitution of the United States of America ; XI. The French Constitution, adopted and proclaimed on the twenty-fourth of June, 1793 ; XII. French charter of Louis XVIII and that adopted in the year 1830 ; XIII. Constitution of the French republic ; XIV. The present constitution of France ; XV. Report of the French Senatorial Committee on the petitions to change the republic into an empire, in November, 1852, and the senatus consultum adopted in conformity with it ; XVI. -- Letter of the French Minister of the Interior, Mr. De Morny, addressed to the prefects of the departments in the year 1852. |
Responsibility: | by Francis Lieber. |
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