JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CHICAGO, AND PROFESSOR OF CONSTITUTIONAL Populus non omnis hominum coetus quoque modo congregatus, sed coetus multitudinis juris They that go about by disobedience to do no more than reforme the commonwealth shall find DIBRAL UNIVERTY CALIFORNIA NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER AND COMPANY. S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY. 1867. 1 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. 4688 (Lieber Library) RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. Leading principles of the American system of government. $$ 2, 3. The function of Enacts the fundamental law. Various species of Conventions described and distinguished. §§ 4-16. I. THE SPONTANEOUS CONVENTION, or PUBLIC MEETING. §§ 4, 5. Examples of, in early American history. §§ 9, 10. IV. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. § 11. Where the Constitutional Convention exercises the powers of a Revolutionary Convention, or vice versa, how to be classed. § 12. History of the origin and development of the Constitutional Con- vention in the United States. §§ 13, 14. Misconceptions respecting the origin, constitution, and powers of the Definition of the terms "sovereign" and "sovereignty." § 18. Distinction between "sovereign" and "supreme." § 18, note 1. Marks or tests of sovereignty, as laid down by Austin. § 19. Ground of sovereignty. § 21, note 2. The question, where sovereignty resides, considered theoretically. § 21. |