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Seizures, right of government to make, States, control of, over militia, 358.

361.

Senate, rights and privileges of mem-

bers of, 173.

Senators, power of Congress over the
election of, 174.

Slaughter-house Cases, 267.

Slavery, effect of, on citizenship, 205.
From 1776-1787, 386.
Fugitives from, 308.
Prohibited, 67.

Prohibited in territory northwest of
river of Ohio, 31.

Prohibited in the ordinance of 1787,
165.

Slaves, fugitive, rendition of, 338.
Importation of, 234.

Privilege of writ of habeas corpus

as to, 236.

Speaker of House, authority of to count
a quorum, 176.

Spy, Chalmers, a British in America, 145.
Stamp Act, 133.

Resistance to, 150.

Taxation by British Parliament, in-
fluence of, 133.

State, characteristics of, 349, 350.
Definition of, 229, 347.

District of Columbia not a, 229.
Grant by, when a contract, 269.
Not republican if under military
power permanently, 350.

Officers of, when exempt from suits,
382.

Suits by citizens against a, 381.
State courts, effect of decisions by, 263.
Judgments in, value of, in other
States, 328-330.

State governments, instrumentalities of,
not taxable, 178.

State Rights, change in by the Preamble
to the Constitution, 170.
Discussion of, in "Passenger Cases,"
198.

Discussion of, in the case of Gibbons
and Ogden, 191.

States, amendment of the Constitution,
how applicable to, 355, 366.
Banks of, liability to pay tax on cur-
rency issued by, 245.
Capacity of, to maintain suits in

courts of the United States, 348.
Capacity of, to pass insolvency laws,
210.

Compacts between, 257, 273.

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Legal government, a political ques-
tion, 344, 345.

Legislation of, controlled by trea-
ties, 289.

Limitation of powers of, over tele-

graph companies, 196.

Limitation of power of, to raise
revenue, 179.

Limitation of power to tax interstate
commerce, 272.

Limitations of the powers of, to lay

duties or taxes on imports or
exports, 271.

May create districts for choice of
electors of President, 277.
May make void contracts valid,
258.

May not impose a tonnage tax, 197.
May not tax officers of the United
States, 177.

May regulate payment of State taxes,
183.

Nature of obligation in, to surrender
fugitives from justice, 335.

New, admission of, 339.
Ownership of soil by, between high
and low water mark, 311.
Police powers of, 267, 268.
Power of Congress to regulate com-
merce with, 190.

Power of, in matters of extradition,
336.

Power of, to pass a bankruptcy act,
208.

Power of, to punish the crime of

counterfeiting, 215.

Power to regulate traffic in intoxi-
cating liquors, 268.

States, power of United States over, in

matters of equality of races, 390.
Powers of, as to pilots, 247, 248.
Powers of in the Confederation, 159.
Powers of, limited by the Preamble
to the Constitution, 170.
Powers of, to lay taxes on instru-
ments of commerce, 275.

Powers of, to punish maritime torts,
203.

Powers of, to regulate the manufact-

ure of intoxicating liquors, 203.
Relation of, to general government,

193.

Reservation of powers to, 375.
Rights of, in Indian territories, 288.
Rights of, over navigable waters

within State limits, 194.

Rights of, to tax national banks, 181.
Rights of, under navigable waters,
339.

Searches and seizures, right of gov-

ernment in regard to, 361.
Suits against, by citizens, 304.
Supremacy of United States over,
290.

Statute, civil rights, how unconstitu-
tional, 396.

Punctuation no part of, 321.

Sturges and Crowninshield, case of, 208.
Subjects of Great Britain, claim of colo-

nists to be, 137.

Suffrage, right of, how limited, 390.

T.

Taney, Chief Justice, opinion of, in Dred
Scott case, 386.

Tax, license, effect of, on State laws
prohibiting classes of business,
244.

On business of a mail-contractor
void, 274.

On exports, 247.

Tonnage, may not be imposed by
States, 197.

When not direct, 178.

Taxation, distinction between internal
and external, 138.

Liability of District of Columbia to,
229.

Right of, by States and by United

States, 182.

Taxation without representation, 137.
Taxes, capitation and direct, 244, 246.
Coupons, when receivable for, 266.
Direct, defined, 244.
Income, 246.

License, by States, cannot be im-
posed in restraint of commerce
among the States, 195.

On real estate, 246.

Power of Congress to levy, 231.
Power of States to regulate payment
of, 183.

Power to levy and collect, 177.
When uniform, 246.

Suit, right of, granted by a State, not a Telegraph companies, jurisdiction by

contract, 262.

Transfer of right of, to a State, 381.
Suits, by citizens, against States, 304.
Transfers of, from State courts, 372.
Supreme Court, controversy in, as to

the legal tender quality of green-
backs, 183.

Decision in, in "Passenger Cases,"

199.

Decisions of, in regard to confisca-
tion, 325.

Judicial powers vested in, 171.
Jurisdiction of, 315.

Jurisdiction of, cannot be enlarged

by Congress, 315.
Jurisdiction of, not conferred by
agreement, 315.

Original jurisdiction of, 315.

Teaching of the decisions of, in re-
gard to the nature of the govern-
ment, 169.

general government over, 196.
Tenure, feudal, the basis of colonial

rights, 139.

Term of Presidential office, history of,
278-280.

Territory, effect of acquisition of, upon
the inhabitants of, 340.
Power to acquire, 340.

Territory northwest of the river Ohio,
government of, 23.

Territories, courts in, their character,
341.

Government of, 340.

Powers of Congress over, 341.

Texas, constitution of, effect of, on stat-
ute of limitations, 393.

Its character as a State after seces-
sion, 346.

Thirteenth Amendment prohibits all
forms of involuntary servitude,
387

Tobacco, stamp tax on, not a tax on ex- | United States, organic laws of, 1.

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Signers of Constitution of, 60.
Supremacy of, over States, 290.
When Constitution of, took effect,
257.

V.

Vessels, tax on, as carriers of freight
and passengers from State to
State illegal, 201.

Vice-President, mode of electing, 277,
383.

Virginia, cession of land by, 164.
Contest of Supreme Court of, 377.
Coupon case of, 266.

Proceedings in, in regard to the
measures of Parliament, 151.

Vote, right to, how limited, 390.
Voting, the right of, how affected by
Fifteenth Amendment, 398.

W.

War powers, as to the authority of Con-
gress under the, to make green-
backs a legal tender, 184.
Civil, powers of government in time
of, 222.

Contracts to engage in, against

friendly powers void, 353.

Power of Congress to declare, vests
in Congress certain powers, 224.
Warren Bridge, case of, 259.
Waters, navigable, control of States
over, 269.

Tide, jurisdiction of States over, 333.
Wayne, Mr. Justice, opinion by, in
"Passenger Cases," 199.

United States, attorneys in courts not Weare, Mr. Comptroller, colonists aim-

officers of the, 253.

Bank, legal character of, 179.
Bank of the, 231.
Constitution of, 33.

Constitution of, distinguished from

the Constitution of England, 136.
Duties and powers of, concerning
States out of their proper rela-
tions to the Union, 348.

ing at independence, 144.

Webster, Noah, first declaration by, as
to the necessity of a strong gov-
ernment, 168.

West Virginia, admission of, 339.
Wheeling Bridge, case of, 217.
Winthrop, John, opinion of, on colonial
rights, 141.

Worcester, Rev. Mr., case of, 286–288.
Laws of, supreme over State laws, 354. Writs of assistance, 149.

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