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State legislatures; as improper bodies to control national elections; power of to check national government; power of to elect Senate

State officers; their oath to support Constitution

States: ability to resist national government, dissension among; not proper subjects for legislation; political equality of; probable reaction to encroachments of national government, probable superiority to national government; prohibitions on; relations among; republicanism of, guaranteed; their role in elections; as source of legitimacy of Constitution, sovereignty of see constitutions, State

States, large

States, new

power to admit

States, small

suffrage

"supremacy" clause

Supreme Court, appellate jurisdiction of, impropriety in acting as court of impeachment, impropriety in sharing in power of veto; necessity for; original jurisdiction of; in relation to lower courts; in relation to State courts; see judiciary

Switzerland

taxation, authority of national government in; authority of States in; as essential power of government, prohibitions on States; shared jurisdictionin; see money, revenue

tenure, official, and stability

territory, extended as defensive of liberty

territory, power to regulate

tolerance, as social value

treason, power to define and punish

treaties; character of, as law of land, as law of nations, power to make; power to make, prohibited to States

trust, concept of

Turkey

tyranny; conditions leading to, steps to, "very definition of,"

unconstitutionality, concept of

Union of States; advantages of; conditions favoring; as breeder of political talent; dangers to, growing affection for; purposes, as stimulus to commerce

Vermont

veto power

Vice-Presidency

violence, domestic, as social evil; see anarchy, disorder, instability, rebellion

Virginia, constitution

war; causes of, costliness of, nature of; power to declare; prevention of; as a "science,"; see defense, standing armies

war powers; in Constitution, importance of not restricting; two-year limit on military appropriations; unlimited nature of; see defense, militia

weakness in government, as invitation to tyranny; as object of scorn; as social ill

wealth, national; organs of; see prosperity West, future of, West Indies