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
Bacon, Sir Francis, leader in argu-
ment in Case of the Postnati, 34;
assists in procuring Virginia Char-
ter of 1606, 36; (Lord Bacon),
quotations from his Essay on
Plantations, 63, 64, 92
Bancroft, George, quotation from
his History of the United States,
Belonging to, as meaning "depen-
dent upon," in British-American
public law, 110; in U. S. Consti-
tution, 458, 459
Benton, Thomas H., quotation from
his Historical and Legal Exami-
nation of the Dred Scott Case, 553,
554
Bermuda, Island of, Franklin pro-
poses admission into American
Union, 351
Bernard, Sir Francis, quotation
from his Select Letters on the
Trade and Government of Amer-
ica, 169-173, 267, 268
Blachford, Lord, in 1885 regarded
British Empire as temporary, 519
Blackstone, Sir William, regarded
American Colonies as conquests,
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), 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
1773, 253-257
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-
28
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,
28
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
Expert government-Continued
exist in any form of State, 2-4;
no modern State wholly under,
4; distinguished from despotic
or paternal government, 517, 518
Extension of the Constitution to the
Territories, meaning of, 554
Farmer's Letters of John Dickin-
son, quoted from, their purport
and effect, 180-189; criticised by
William Knox, 229-237
Federal Empire, British Empire of
1750 a, 125; defined, 261-279;
principles of, announced by John
Dickinson, 1774, 279; the Ameri-
can ultimatum to Great Britain a
demand for restoration of, 289;
recognized by Lord Chatham,
1775, 308; theory of, stated by
Gouverneur Morris in his Observa-
tions on the American Revolution,
391-395; the modern British Em-
pire essentially a, 536; an evolu-
tion and a permanent organism,
602, 603
Federal-Imperialist Party, in the
Continental Congress, 280, 281;
views of, expressed by the form
given American ultimatum, 290-
294; their position at the second
session of the Continental Con-
gress, 320-322; in the Congress
of the Confederation, position of,
concerning administration of the
Western region, 426, 431, 433,
439, 442-444
Fourteenth Amendment, effect of,
on political status of inhabitants
of American dependencies, 566,
567
France, administration of its de-
pendencies by, from 1600 to 1787,
11-24; from 1787 to 1902, 474-
489
Franklin, Benjamin, drafts Albany
Plan of Union of 1754, 137; quo-
tation from his Reasons and Mo-
tives on which the Plan of Union
was Formed, 137, 138; examina-
tion before the House of Com-
mons in 1766, 175, 176; counsels
with Lord Chatham concerning
latter's Bill, 298; his Canada
Pamphlet, 350; his Plan for Set-
tling Two Colonies West of the
Allegheny Mountains, 350; re-
gards the Union as the Sovereign
of the Western region, 401
Freeman, Edward A., regards Ger-
many as a Federal Empire, 490;
views concerning Imperial Feder-
ation, 521
French Colonial Empire, of 1600 to
1750, 21, 24
French Colonial School, its estab-
lishment and objects, 487
French Constitution, of 1791, pro-
visions respecting the dependen-
cies in, 476; of 1795, provisions
on same subject in, 476; of 1800,
478; of 1814, 478; of 1830, 479;
of 1848, 479; of 1852, 479; of
1875, situation respecting depend-
encies under, 479
French General Assembly, prepares
plan for Colonial Constitutions,
French Minister for Commerce, in
charge of the Colonies between
1881 and 1890, 479
French Minister for the Colonies,
appointed in 1894, 480
French Minister for the Marine, in
charge of the Colonies until after
1881, 479
French National Colonial Congress,
of 1889, action regarding French
Imperial Council, 480, 481
French Society for the Abolition of
Slavery, effect of, in the French
Colonies, 475
French West Indian Colonies,
granted Local Assemblies by
Louis XVI., 474; Civil War in,
General Courts of Virginia Com-
pany, as Imperial Councils, 57
George III., opposes House of
Commons, 130
Georgia, Charter granted in 1732,
88
Germany, character of its Colonial
Empire, 490; administration of
its dependencies by, 489-497
Germany, Emperor of, his powers
respecting the dependencies, 491
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