Index

Abbott, Ann 11

Abbott, Charles Baron Colchester Speaker 31

Act of Parliament see Statutes and Constitutions

Adams, John: correcting draft of Declaration of Independence xi, 78-9, 83; letters 22, 107; meeting with Jefferson, at White House 83; Presidential race (1796) 9; Presidential race (1800) 87, 88; Secretary of War, de facto 22, 26; Vice-President 86; works Diary 9 Addington, Henry Speaker of the House of Commons 31, 47

Aegean Sea 1 Algiers 95, 116

Aristoteleanism 40, 46, 77 Aristotle 40

Articles of Confederation, US see Statutes and Constitutions

Athens 1-3, 6, 46, 47 Augustus Roman Emperor 89

Bacon, Francis 156, 166

Bank of England 5, 95, 98-9, 112-13, 117, 118, 149, 162

Bank of North America see Hamilton, Alexander

Barras, Jacques-Melchior Saint-Laurent, comte Admiral de 52, 53

Barre, Isaac MP 23, 24, 47 Bayly, Nathaniel MP 58 Bentham, Jeremy: i, x, xii, 3, 5, 32,

39, 115, 147, 153, 155, 162, 163; changes in procedural rules 6; code-writing 123-6; Continental Congress, comments on secrecy 21; Essay on Political Tactics 121-42, 144, 165, 169; manufacturers making tools, metaphor 1,3, 32, 127; negative outcomes 126,

128- 9; parliamentary skills 121-2; pedagogical function of assembly 121, 156; process and merit outcomes 121; successive balloting 126, 164; suffrages, number of 132-3, 139, 141-2; table of motions

129- 30, 137-42; time-management 137, 138, 140-2; word-management 133, 138, 139,140-4

Bernstein, R.B.

Bill of Rights see Statutes and Constitutions

Blackstone, William: Commentaries on the Laws of England 13-14, 27, 28, 40-1, 45, 46, 48, 82, 115, 133,

140, 143, 144, 147-8, 153-4, 159, 165, 166

Board of War and Ordnance 22 Boston, Massachusetts 51 Botanic Garden, A Poem 13, 28 Boulton, Matthew 15 Bridgewater, Duke of see Egerton,

Francis 15, 28, 166 Bromwich, David 63, 75 Brooke, John 24, 29 Bude to Tamar Canal see canals in

Great Britain

Burke, Edmund: x, 4, 23, 24, 26, 61, 72, 73, 74, 75, 93, 115, 130, 131,

141, 144, 148, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 166; Reflections on the Revolution in France 6, 82; Speech at the Guildhall in Bristol 70; Speech [on] Economical Reformation 63; Speech to the Bristol Electors 62;

Thoughts on Present Discontents 62, 69-71

Burnett, Edmund 28, 53, 75

Burr, Aaron 87 Burton 11, 15 Byrd, Honora 11

Camden, Battle of 51 Canada 11, 18, 60

Canals in Great Britain 15, 16, 19,

28, 66, 107-8, 114-15, 116, 121, 119, 133, 148, 151, 162-3; Bude to

Tamar 15; Grand Trunk 10; Trent to Mersey 10, 12, 14, 17-18, 20, 33, 66, 104, 148, 151-2, 162

Capes, Battle of the 52-3 Carlisle Commission 36, 58, 59

Cases, United States Supreme Court:

Chisholm v.

Cavendish, Henry 24 Cavendish, John 60

Charleston, Battle of 51 Charlottesville, Virginia 52, 79 Cheesemongers see Worshipful

Company of Cheesemongers Chesapeake Bay see Capes, Battle of Chester, town of 11

Cleon of Athens 1-3, 6, 46

Clinton, Henry Lieut.-Gen. 51-3 Cobbett, William 43, 44 code of procedure 5, 6, 22, 46, 88,

90-2, 95-6, 102-3, 123-5, 151-3, 155-6, 162, 165; coded/coding procedures 67, 85, 106, 151, 158, 161; code-writing 4, 32-3, 82, 90, 113, 123, 125, 127, 130-1, 156, 162 code of regulations 123 code of rules 16, 90, 91, 96, 102-3,

123, 156, 162 Coke, Edward 40, 41 Commissioners for the Audit of Public

Accounts: in North administration, (1780-1785) 60-1, 150; in Pitt administration (1785) 61, 111 Commons, House of see House of

Commons

Concord, Battle of 22, 52 Cone, Carl 149, 151

Congress see House of Representative;

Senate

Constitution I see Statutes and

Constitutions

Constitution II see Statutes and

Constitutions

Continental Association 17

Continental Congress, US: Ordinances and Enactments 56; proceedings (1774-1775) 9, 10, 17, 18, 25, 148; proceedings (1775-1789) 10, 23, 26,

53, 56, 57, 115, 148

Convertibility Crisis (1799) 5, 95, 111 Cornwall, Frederick MP 31, 43 Cornwallis, Charles General 51-3 Cowpens, Battle of 51

Creek Indians 100

Cuvee TJ see Jefferson, Thomas

Darwin, Erasmus: The Botanic Garden 13, 28

Daunton, Martin 104-6, 108, 115, 118, 119

Declaration of Independence 6, 10,

54, 56, 78, 79, 81, 83, 88, 91, 93,

153, 156

Derby, county of 11, 27

Dickenson, John delegate 83

Dobbs Ferry, town of 52

Duane, James 9, 54-5, 56, 72,

73, 150

Duffy, Michael 113, 119

Dyson, Jeremiah MP 31, 37, 47

Egerton, Francis Duke of Bridgewater 15, 28, 166

Eleventh Amendment see Statutes and Constitutions

Elsynge, Henry Speaker 69

enslaved workers see Jefferson, Thomas Essay on Political Tactics see Bentham,

Jeremy

Estates-General, France see

States-General, France

Finch, Heneage 37

Fox, Charles James 23, 24

France x, 20, 51, 58, 60, 77-8, 82, 84, 88, 95, 98, 101, 148-9

Franklin, Benjamin: Continental Congress, delegate 51; Library Company of Philadelphia, founder 20; Minister to France 77, 78; Model Treaty, role assisting Adams 19-20 French West Indies 53

Gates, Horatio General 51

Georgia, State of 85, 100

Glasgow Green 15

goodness and fairness 6, 103, 106, 115,

154, 157, 162; see also trust

Grand Trunk Canals see canals in Great Britain

Grasse, Francois Joseph Paul Admiral de 52, 53

Graves, Thomas Admiral 52, 53

Great Britain, Kingdom of: Kings see Hanover, George; legislative bodies see House of Commons; House of Lords; Treasury Lords see Addington; North; Pitt; Shelburne Great Lakes of the United States 18 Grenville, George MP 41 Guidi, Marco 132, 133, 144, 169 Guilford Court House, Battle of 51

Hague, William 150, 157 Hakewill, William MP xi, 33, 42, 47,

84-5, 93, 155, 156, 166

Hamilton, Alexander: Bank of North America 55, 56, 114-15, 153; Continental Army, captain 56; Continental Congress, delegate 4, 115, 168; letters 54, 56, 72, 73, 150-1; staff officer to Washington 54; works Federalist 123

Hanover, George King George III 24, 25, 110, 114, 118

Hardinge, Nicholas Clerk of the House of Commons ix, 33, 34, 35, 47, 93

Harrington, James 123, 156-7, 158, 160, 166, 167

Hatsell, John: and Arthur Onslow xii, 10, 31-2, 37, 40-1, 42; Clerk Assistant 31; Clerk of the House of Commons I, ix-xii, 3, 4, 9, 31; ConferenceIImpeachment (1796) 31, 38, 74; and Frederick Cornwall 31, 53; and Frederick Montagu 31; and Henry Addington 31; and Jeremiah Dyson 31, 37, 42; LordsISupply (1785) 31, 38, 49, 107, 135-6; MembersISpeaker (1781, 1785) 26, 28, 31, 32, 35, 37, 39, 41, 47, 48, 49, 65, 67, 74, 93, 118-19, 166, 167; Precedents of Proceedings ix, 28, 38, 44, 48, 49, 74, 81, 84, 86, 91, 92, 93, 119, 122, 167; Standing Orders (1774) 15, 16, 21, 27, 28, 32, 102, 107, 117, 119; Standing Orders (1792) 102, 119; views on War for American Independence xii, 36; visit with Voltaire 37; works Cases of Privilege (1776) 4, 31, 34, 24,

47, 48

Henry, Patrick delegate 18

House of Commons/Great Britain/ United Kingdom: arrangement of business 134, 139, 168; committee of the Whole House 66, 72, 97, 98, 110-11, 138; committees, chairman 16-17; committees, select 12, 66, 67, 110-13; committees on Lords’ amendments 135; committees on private bills 151; committees of supply 110-11; financial business, estimates 99, 106, 108, 116; journals, approval of publication program 33-4; members, election of, contested 44, 48, 49, 67, 70; members, vacation of seat 58-9; motions, adjournment of the House 65, 172; motions, leave to bring in a bill 60, 172; motions, writ of election 43, 37, 48, 66, 67, 69; procedures, canals 16; procedures, finance/taxation, 97-9, 102-3, 151; quorum requirement 136; party system 24, 45, 61, 62, 63, 71, 113, 132, 135, 140, 154; sittings of 64, 139; speaker 10, 31, 32, 38, 41-2, 45, 64, 65, 69, 72, 79, 82, 86; standing orders, compared with rules of practice 38, 42, 45, 57, 63, 68; standing orders, development of 15, 16, 25, 33, 154; standing orders, printing of 16, 17, 25, 32, 154; standing orders, relating to finance 110

House of Lords, Great Britain: Lords’ amendments 135; official communications between 42, 66

House of Representatives, United

States: Madison, Congressman in 86; rules adopted (1789) 80, 124

Howard, Frederick; Earl of Carlisle see Carlisle Commission

Howell, W.S.

Hume, David 132, 133, 134

Ilbert, Courtenay Clerk of House of Commons ix, 32, 136, 145, 169 inventory of due conduct 122 inventory of motions 65 inventory of prescriptions 21, 22, 32, 33, 65, 68, 81, 88, 124, 155-6, 161 inventory of rules 152 inventory of treaties 19

Jay, John Chief Justice 87

Jefferson, Peter see Jefferson, Thomas, family

Jefferson, Thomas: Continental Congress, delegate x, xi, 77, 80; Declaration of Independence 78-9, 88, 153; family, education 77, 80, 83; Inaugural Address 6, 90-1, 159-60, 163; Land Ordinance (1784) 88; letters 80, 81; Louisiana Purchase 177; Manual of Parliamentary Practice ix, 1, 5-6, 7, 39, 79, 80, 81, 85, 94, 102, 119, 122, 155-6, 162; Minister to France 77-8, 79, 92; Monticello, enslaved persons laboring at 78; Monticello, remodeling 88; Notes on the State of Virginia 78; Parliamentary Pocket-Book x, 79, 81; President of the United States 78, 79, 83, 87, 88, 101, 117, 159, 161; Rules for Conducting Business in the Senate xi-xii, 81, 144, 167; State of Virginia, governor 52, 56, 73; Vice-President of the United States xi, 77, 82, 84, 88; Virginia House of Burgesses, delegate 11, 77, 79, 80, 83; wine, Cuvee TJ 19; works A Summary View of Rights 93

Kant, Immanuel 132-4, 143, 144 King’s Bench, Court of see Great Britain King’s Friends 24

Knox, Henry General Secretary of War 99-100

Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de 52, 53, 59

Lee, Richard delegate 158 Lenthall, William Speaker 69 Leoni, Giacomo 89 Lexington, Battle of 22, 52 Ley, John Clerk of the House of

Commons 31, 36, 37

Library Company of Philadelphia 20 Liverpool, town of 11

London, City of ix, xii, 47, 60, 62, 71, 78, 112, 148

London Merchant-Taylors Company 69 Lords, House of see House of Lords,

Great Britain

Loughlin, Martin 115, 118, 120

Louis XVI 77

Louisiana Purchase see Jefferson, Thomas

Louisiana Territory 101

Louisiana Treaty see Treaties

Maddicott, John 80, 94

Madison, James: Continental Congress (1780-1783), delegate 4, 54-6, 163; Constitutional Convention (1787), delegate 86, 115; works Federalist 163

Manhattan, Island of 51-3

Manual of Parliamentary Practice see

Jefferson, Thomas, works

Maryland, State of 56-7, 58

Maurois, Andre 77, 94

Mediterranean 95

Milton, John xv, 31, 37 mini-codes of procedure 6, 15, 16, 22, 32, 91, 95, 124, 142, 151, 152, 154

Mirabeau, Honore Gabriel Riqueti

Count 124, 142, 144

Mississippi River 57, 60

Model Treaty 18-20

Montagu, Frederick 24, 31, 47, 107, 151, 157-8

Montesquieu, Charles-Louis Baron 45-6, 49

Montfort, Simon de 80

Monticello see Jefferson, Thomas

More, Thomas 156

Moritz, John Phillip 71-2, 75

Mytilene, island in Aegean 1-3, 6, 46

Napoleon Bonaparte 98, 101, 106

Napoleonic Wars ii

navigation projects 10, 15, 28, 119, 166

New York, City of 51, 99

New York, State of 9, 51-3

Nixon, Sarah 11

North, Frederick Lord Commissioner 23-6, 36, 57-8, 60-1, 73, 110, 111, 150, 151

Northwich, town of 11, 27

Ohio River 56

Onslow, Arthur: Hatsell, mentor to 10, 31-2; Speaker, House of Commons xii, 10, 31, 32, 37, 42, 64

Palladio, Andrea 89, 90, 94, 152

Paris xi, 60, 77, 78, 84, 87, 88, 101

Parliament see House of Commons, GB, UK; House of Lords, Great Britain

Parliament, Act of see Statutes and Constitutions

Parliamentary Model, generally, 171-3; acclamation, as driver 60, 66; auction-and-bargaining, as driver 133, 164; credentials i, 3, 18, 21, 80, 136; debate-and-ballot, as driver 46, 65, 66, 121, 133, 138, 148; drivers, generally 65-7, 138, 173; endowed mission/secondment to committee, as driver 9, 10, 16-17, 22, 23, 34-5, 38, 39, 40, 43, 54, 56, 66, 84, 88, 97, 100, 102-3, 110-13, 122, 138-40, 151, 152, 157-8, 164; legislative disorganisation 26; lottery, as driver 43, 66; majority 9, 21-2, 46, 57, 58, 64, 65, 66, 80, 90, 102, 113, 131-2, 139-40, 153; quorum 21, 136; tribunal, as driver 66, 135 Peloponnesian War 1, 7 Pennsylvania State House, Independence Hall 10

Petty, Henry 109, 116

Petty, William Lord Shelburne 25, 59 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 3, 17, 18,

36, 51, 54, 57, 59, 79, 83, 86, 148 Philips, Robert 38 Piraeus, seaport near Athens 1 Pitt, William: assessment by public 12; assessment by scholars x, 112; ministry (1783-1801) 61, 95-9, 102-5, 108-14, 148-9; ministry (1803-1806) 10; projects, amends audit commission 61, 110, 147; projects, Sinking Fund 109, 112, 132, 148-50, 104, 162; relations with Tierney 95-9 (duel, floor of the House 96, duel, Putney Heath 96) Pocock, J.G.A. 157, 167 President’s Palace see White House Price, Richard 148, 167 Privy Council 112, 118 Putney Heath 96

Raleigh, Sir Walter 83, 84

Redlich, Josef: analysis of Bentham xii, 129, 136-9, 140, 142, 169; Historical Note, in Recht und Technik 139; Parliamentary procedure, generally 137,

139-40; Recht und Technik des Englischen Parlaments ix, 136, 145 Redoubt No.

Assistant 31

Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimiur, comte de 51-3

Romilly, Samuel: Reglemens xii, 124, 142, 144

Roseveare, Henry 150-1, 167 Rotonda, see Villa Capra

Rutledge, John the Elder delegate 9

Saratoga, Battle of 25, 26, 51, 77 Scobell, Henry xi, 85, 94, 124, 155, 156, 166

Senate, United States: interaction with President Washington 99-101, 103, 116; ratification of treaties 99, 100, 101; Rules (1797-1801) i, xi, 5, 80-1, 83-6, 88-90, 92, 95, 99-100,

147, 151, 172-3; Rules (1801) 5, 78, 79

Seymour, Francis Sir 64

Shelburne, Lord see Petty, William Lord Shelburne

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 95, 113, 116 Smith, Adam 99, 117, 120, 134-5, 145, 152, 160

Sneyd, Ann Stafford 11

Spain 51, 58, 60

Sparta 1

Standard Model, generally, 173-4; national service missions, 173; political society, advancing national agenda 24, 110, 114; political society, as change agent 6, 25, 163; political society, as contrivance 6, 115, 148, 159, 163; political society, satisfying needs of consumer-inhabitants 6, 108, 115,

148, 153-65; programs, articulated and advanced, 165

Standing Orders see House of

Commons, Standing Orders States-General, France 124, 128, 130, 140 Statutes and Constitutions:

Constitutions and Amendments, United States (Constitution I [proposed amendments (1781-1784) 54-6, 72; ratified

(1 March 1781) 54, 58];

Constitution II [amendment (1795) Eleventh Amendment 87, 93; amendment (1804) Twelfth Amendment 87; amendments (1791), Bill of Rights 86, 87; ratified (21 June 1788) 4]; Great Britain (6 Geo. 3 c. 96 (Trent to Mersey Canal Act) 10, 14, 18-20, 33, 66; 10 Geo. 3 c. 16 (Grenville’s Act) 43; 11 Geo. 3 c. 42 (Grenville’s Act, amended) 43; 18 Geo. 3 c. 13 (American Rebellion Act) 58; 20 Geo. 3 c. 54 (Audit of Public Accounts 1780) 61, 150; 22 Geo. 3 c. 46 (Clerke’s Act) 59; 25 Geo. 3 c. 52 (Audit of Public Accounts 1785) 61; 26 Geo.

Symonds, H.D. 112

Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice French Foreign Minister 101

Tarleton, Banastre Lieut.-Colonel

52-3, 77 Thucydides 1-3, 6, 7, 46 Tierney, George, resolutions challenging government’s tax policy 96-9, 116 Townshend, Thomas 59 treaties: Louisiana Treaty (1803) 161;

negotiations 55, 56, 99; Treaty of Mortefontaine (1800-1801) 98, 99; Treaty of Paris (1783) x (preliminaries to treaty 54-5); Treaty with Algiers (1797) 95

trust 16, 18, 58, 62, 63, 69, 70, 71, 82, 87, 105, 106, 108, 115, 155, 160, 161; see also goodness and fairness

Twelfth Amendment see Statutes and Constitutions

United States: presidents see Washington, Adams, Jefferson; legislative bodies see Continental Congress, House of Representatives, Senate; enactments see Statutes and Constitutions

University of Virginia 88, 89, 91

Varnum, James General, delegate 54-6 Veneto, district near Venice 89

Villa Capra, The Rotonda 89

Virginia, State of 52-4, 56, 73, 77,

79, 84

Virginia House of Burgesses see Jefferson, Thomas

Vitruvius, Marcus Pollio 89-90, 91, 93, 94, 135, 145, 167

Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet xii, 37, 77, 91, 92, 94

Walpole, Horace 153

wars: conflict with Barbary pirates (1801-1805) 95; First War for American Independence (1775-1783) 57; Seven Years War (1756-1763) 19; Wars of the Coalitions (1775-1815) 95, 159

Washington, George: military service, General, Continental Army 52, 53-4, 58; President, United States

80, 95, 99-100, 104; works, Sentiments Expressed (1789) 100

Watt, James 15

White House 78

Wigglesworth, auditor 111

Wilden 15, 27

Williams, O.C. 31, 32, 37-8, 49 wine see Jefferson, Thomas Worshipful Company of

Cheesemongers 15, 27, 148

Wythe, George xi, 80-1, 87, 92-3

Yorktown, Battle of 24, 25, 52-3, 56, 59