Act of Parliament, of 1750, prohibit- ing iron mills in American Colo- nies, 133 of 1751, regulating issue of bills of credit in American Colonies, 133; of 1767, suspend- ing New York Assembly, 179; of 1767, imposing tariff on paints, etc., 179, 180; of 1767, establish- ing Commissioners of Customs in American Colonies, 180; of 1772, for trying in England persons charged with crime in America, 253; of 1773, regulating issue of bills of credit in American Colo- nies, 253; of 1774, for closing the port of Boston, 259; of 1774, for regulating government of Quebec, 259
Adams, John, his anti-Imperialist views expressed in the pamphlet, Novanglus and Massachusettensis, 280, 281
Address to the House of Commons,
of 1765, quotation from, 167, 168 Address to the King, of 1765, quo- tation from, 166, 167; of 1774, quotation from, 288, 289; of 1775, quoted and discussed, 325, 326, 329-331
Address to the People of Canada, of 1774, its purpose and effect, 364, 365 Address to the People of Great Britain, of 1774, quotation from, 288; of 1775, quoted and dis- cussed, 326, 332 Administration of dependencies, theory of, governed by view held concerning their statehood, 8, 9 Admiralty, Courts of, in American Colonies, 146-148
Admission to the American Union, meaning of, 363
Agents for the Colonies, institution and functions of, 89
Alaska, administration of, 573 Albany Congress, of 1754, suggests American sub-Empire, 135 Albany Plan of Union, of 1754, provisions respecting dependen- cies in, 135-141
Algeria, in charge of French Minis- ter for the Interior, 480; repre- sented in French Parliament, 487; modern views of French policy respecting, 489
All needful rules and regulations, meaning of, in U. S. Constitution, 462 Alsace-Lorraine, character of Ger- many's problem respecting, 489, 490; administration of, by Ger- many, 491-493 American dependencies, administra- tion of, 537-577; status of the Local Legislatures and Courts, 550-553; division of administra- tion between Executive Depart- ments, 576, 577; power of American Union to isolate, 597, 598; and to adjudicate contribu- tions to the Imperial defence, 599, 600 American
Empire, planned by Franklin, 351; declared by French Treaties of 1778, 374- 399; recognized by U. S. Consti- tution, 445-473
American Indians, see Indian Tribes. American insular dependencies,
Presidential administration, under supervision of Congress, neces- sary, 593, 594 American Insurance Company v. Canter (1 Peters, 449), decision of Supreme Court concerning status of Colonial Judiciary, 550. 551
Andros, Sir Edmund, acts of, as Governor-General of New Eng- land, 84
Annual Register, of 1763, quotation from, 143
Anti-Imperialist Party, positions taken by, in Continental Congress, 280, 281, 290, 320-334; position taken by, regarding Resolution of 1784, in Congress of the Confed- eration, 426
Articles of Confederation, provisions of Franklin's draft of, relating to the Empire, 350, 351; of Dickin- son's draft, 352; reasons for omitting provisions relating to the Empire in, 367-369 Assimilation, policy of, for depen- dencies, meaning of, in French politics, 483; régime of, insisted upon by dissenting Judges in In- sular Tariff Cases, 571, 572 d'Avenel, Vicomte, quotations from his book, Richelieu et la Monarchie Absolue, 11-13
Bluntschli, Dr. J. G., in 1850 dis- tinguished the Federal Empire from the Federal State, 490 Board of Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, as Under-Secre- tary of State for Imperial Affairs, 85-88, 215, 216; office abolished in 1780, 498
Boston Port Bill a war measure, 259 Boulanger, M., statement concern- ing administration of French de- pendencies, 481, 482 Brassey, Lord, views of, concerning an Imperial Council, 527 British Empire, administration of, 49-151, 191-260, 498-536; the Stamp Act a denial of, 149; conception of, as a permanent organism, 505, 506; essentially a federal organism, 536
British Peace Commissioners of 1778, proposals of, 384-387 British Peace Overtures of 1778, char- acter of, and causes of rejection of, 377-387 Burke, Edmund, quotation from his speech on American taxation, 268, 269; his resolutions for concilia- tion, 311; quotation from his speech on his resolutions for con- ciliation, 311-313; his views con- cerning the Imperial power, 313- 315, 338; his second conciliatory resolutions, 335; in 1780 secures abolition of Imperial Secretariat, 498
Burnet, History of his Own Times quoted, 86
Cabinet, (British), (British), distinguished from Privy Council, 128, 129 Calhoun, John C., his theory con- cerning relationship of the Terri- tories to the American Union, 553, 554
Calvin's Case, principles concerning dependencies decided in, 32-35 Camden, Lord, his views concerning taxation, 175
Campbell v. Hall, case of, discussed, 294-297
Canada, Franklin's and Dickinson's
proposals to admit into American
Union, 351, 352, 356, 363-366; declines overtures of American Union for reception into Union, 364, 365; Articles of Confedera- tion relating to admission of, to Union, 372; divided into two Provinces, 1791, 501; crisis in, 1835-1840, 501, 502
Carolina, characteristics of Charter of 1584, 30, 31; of Charter of 1665, 83
Case of the Postnati, principles con- cerning dependencies decided in, 31-35
Chamberlain, Hon. Joseph, views of, concerning an Imperial Coun- cil, 527, 528; concerning Imperial power and obligation, 536 Channel Islands, administration of, in 1606, 49
Charles I., grants Massachusetts Bay Charter of 1629, 66; grants Mary- land Charter of 1632, 66; grants Province of Maine, 1639, 67, 68; appoints Imperial Council of 1634, 66
Charles II., appoints Council for Foreign Plantations in 1660 as Imperial Council, 79; in 1672, abolishes this Council and ap- points Council for Trade and Plantations as Imperial Under- Council, 83, 84 Charter of Compact, meaning of, in Resolution of 1784, 422, 423 Chatham, Lord, quotation of his Bill for settlement between Great Britain and the American Colonies, 299-304; his speeches in support of his Bill, 304-306, 308; his speech opposing American inde- pendence in 1778, 383, 384. also William Pitt. Chesney, Sir George, quotation from his Indian Polity, 511-514 Citizens of the United States, inhab- itants of Northwest Territory not, 435, 436; inhabitants of Ameri- can dependencies not, 566, 567 Colomb, Sir John, quotation from his Survey of Existing Conditions, 532, 533 Colonial Agents, institution and functions of, 89
Colonial Committee, of French Gen-
eral Assembly, prepares plan of Constitution for Colonies, 475 Colonial Council of France, first in- stituted by Napoleon I., 478; modern, its institution and func- tions, 480, 481
Colonial Council of Germany, its in- stitution and functions, 494 Colonial Legislation (British-Amer- ican), form of enacting clause of, 117, 118
Colonial Pact, French theory of, 19-22
Colonies of the American Union,
provided for in Franklin's draft of Articles of Confederation, 350, 351; provided for in Dickinson's draft of Articles of Confederation, 352; proposition of 1777 concern- ing their administration, 370, 371; provided for in Articles of Con- federation, 372; districts of North- west Territory recognized as, 423 Colonization, by Lords Proprietors, 30; by guilds or privileged com- panies, 52-54
Colony, meaning of, 90-94; mean- ing of, in Articles of Confedera- tion, 366 Commissioners for making peace with American Colonies in 1778, their proposals, 384-387 Commissioners for Trade and Plan- tations as Under-Secretariat of State for Imperial Affairs, 83, 84, 215, 216 Committee of the Privy Council for Plantation Affairs, as Secretariat of State, 218-220; revived in 1784, 500; ceased to exist in 1800, 501; temporarily revived in 1849, 506, 507 Commonwealth Parliament, powers exercised by, respecting the Col- onies, 68-79, 114 Conditional power, distinguished from limited power by the Conti- nental Congress of 1778, 391- 396 Conditional subjection, inhabitants of American dependencies in rela- tionship of, 395 Congress of the American Union,
claims to be the successor of the King of Great Britain and Sover- eign of Western region, 400-409
Congress of the Confederation, power of, over the American dependencies, 378-444; power of, to negative colonial legislation, 438-440
Congress of the United States, power of, respecting the depend- encies, 453-473; objections to administration of dependencies by, 578-580; as a superintending ad- ministrator of the dependencies, 581-587 Connecticut,
Charter of 1662
granted, 82; Charter forfeited in 1687, 84
Conseil Supérieur des Colonies, es- tablished in 1883, remodelled in 1890, 480, 481
Consent of the governed, meaning of, in Declaration of Indepen- dence, 396-399
Constitution, British-American, of 1750, 121-127
Constitution of the British Empire, distinguished by Edmund Burke from British Constitution, 269; also by the Continental Congress, 344, 349 Constitution of the United States, proceedings of Convention for framing, 445-473; ' extended to" the Territories, 1850-1890, 550; its effect in the depend- encies, 552-555 Constitutional protectorate, mean- ing of, 353 Continental Congress, proceedings
of, at session of 1774, 280-293; recognized by Lord Chatham's Bill, 301; issues and parties at its second session in 1775, 318- 349; its views concerning the power of Parliament, 339, 340; it reasons for rejecting informal British peace overtures of 1778, 381, 382; rejects proposals of British Commissioners, 1778, 384- 387 Council for Foreign Plantations (1660-1670), as the Imperial Council, instructions to, 79-82; instructions to, of 1670, regarding Indian tribes, 83
Council for India, in Great Britain, its establishment in 1858, and functions, 511-514
Council for Trade and Plantations, of 1672, as the Imperial Under- Council, 83, 84
Council of Commerce, of 1650, as the Imperial Under-Council, 75, 76; of 1655, as the Imperial Un- der-Council, 77, 78
Council of State, as the Imperial Council, 1650-1658, 75-79 Countries subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, mentioned in Act of Congress of 1804, 541 ; and in Thirteenth Amendment, 566, 567
Courts of Admiralty in the Ameri- can Colonies, 146-148 Cromwell, Oliver, appoints Council of Commerce, as Imperial Under- Council, 77
Crown, power of the British, over the American Colonies, 244, 245, 264, 265, 273, 277
Declaration of Independence, prin- ciples of colonial relationship un- derlying, 341-348; not inconsistent with an American Federal Em- pire, 396-399
Declaration of Rights and Griev- ances of 1774 quoted and discussed, 283-285
Declaration of War, between Great Britain and the American Col- onies, in 1775, 309, 310
Declaratory Act of 1766, regarding the Imperial power of Great Britain, 176-179
Delegate in Congress, Territorial, same as Colonial Agent, 422 Department for Imperial Affairs, in United States, proposed, 588 Department of Colonial Affairs (British), proposed in 1764, 208, 223; established 1768, 498; abol- ished, 1782, 498; re-established, 1854, 507 Dependencies, defined, 7; their characteristics as possessing polit- ical personality or not, 6-8; with the Imperial State constitute an Empire, 8, 9; first use of the term, 108-110 Dependencies of the American Union, propositions of 1777 re-
lating to their administration, 370, 371; planned to arise from con- quest in 1776, 374; referred to in French Treaties of 1778, 374- 376 Dependencies of the United States,
mentioned in Act of Congress of 1804, 541 Dependent States, American Colo- nies so called by Sir Francis Ber- nard in 1768, 191
Dependent upon, this expression used in Act of October 3, 1650, 76 Dickinson, John, his pamphlet, The
Late Regulations Respecting the British Colonies on the Continent of America, 157; quotation from The Farmer's Letters, 180-189; his criticism of James Wilson's essay, 263; quotation from his New Es- say on the Constitutional Power of Great Britain over the Colonies in America, 273-277; his recog- nition of the Federal Empire, 279; elected to the Continental Con- gress and takes his seat, 1774, 287; his draft of the Declaration on Taking up Arms, 1775, 320- 322; provisions relating to the Empire in his draft of Articles of Confederation, 352
Dilke, Sir Charles, quotation from his Problems of Greater Britain, concerning an Imperial Council, 526
Dispose of, meaning of, in English public law, 44-46 Disposition, meaning of, in French public law, 13, 14; in English public law, 39-44; in British politics, 143; in British public law, 295; used to describe the Imperial power by the Continen- tal Congress, 348; power of the American Union over its depend- encies a power of, 359-362, 401- 418, 458, 459; power of, includes plenary power of regulation, 419- 444; used by Jefferson as describ- ing the Imperial power in 1787, 431, 432; used to describe the Imperial power in United States Constitution, 458, 459; power of, does not include power of aliena- tion, 470
District of Columbia, power of Con- gress over, under United States Constitution, 472; administration of, 594-596
Districts in Western region both "States" and "Colonies," 423 Dominion, meaning of, 100-103 Downes v. Bidwell (182 U. S., 244),
views of the Supreme Court con- cerning the Imperial power in, 562-570
Dred Scott Case, views of the Su- preme Court concerning the Im- perial power in, 556, 557
Duke of York, patent of 1664 to, 83 Dulany, Daniel, quotation from his Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes on the British Colonies, 153, 154
Durham, Lord, quotation from his Report on the Affairs of British America (1839), 502, 503
East India Company, reasons for sending tea-ships to America in
Eddy, Charles Walter, views of, concerning an Imperial Council, 521-523
Egerton, Hugh E., quotations from his History of British Colonial Policy, 36, 505, 519, 520 Elgin, Lord, declares British Em- pire a permanent organism, 1850, 506
Elizabeth, Queen of England, her policy respecting Parliament, 26-
Emperor of Germany, power of, re- specting the dependencies, 491 Empire, definition of the modern, 8 Empire, the Federal, see Federal Empire.
Enacting clause, of colonial laws, 117, 118
English Empire, from 1200 to 1600,
Expansion of the American Union,
Franklin's views expressed in his draft of Articles of Confederation, 351
Expert government, defined, I ; im-
plies conditional power, 2; may
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