This is not to say that one must not recognize the meaning and the need of law-making by statute; of law made by the people themselves to suit present conditions.  “There should be a law about it,” is the popular phrase—­commonly there is a law about it, and the best of all law, because tested by time and experience; only, the people do not realize this, and their power and practice of immediate legislation is not only the great event in our modern science of government, but it is also the greatest change in the rules and conditions of our living, and our doing, and our having.  Not only our office-holders, but we ourselves, are born, labor, inherit, possess, marry, devise, and combine, under a perpetual plebiscitum, referendum, and recall.  I can only hope that I have made some suggestions to my readers which will awaken their interest to the importance of the subject.

INDEX

Abbot of Lilleshall case,
Abduction, statute against, A.D. 1452, (see Kidnapping). 
Acton Burnel (see Statute Merchant). 
Actors forbidden from swearing on the stage. 
Administration of estates, unfair laws in American States. 
Administrative law (see Boards and Commissions),
  still exists in Germany;
  forbidden by Magna Charta;
  did not exist in England. 
Adultery now made a crime. 
Advertising,
  signs forbidden;
  of patent medicines, divorce matters, etc., prohibited. 
“Affected with a public interest”; use of phrase to justify rate
regulation. 
African labor, etc. (see Negro). 
Agricultural products,
  exempted from anti-trust laws;
  stations usually exist in State. 
Aids (see Taxation, Taxes);
  the three customary. 
Ale (see also Sumptuary Legislation), Assize of. 
Alfred, laws of (see Wessex)
Alien,
  legislation against, in labor matters dates from 1530;
  rights of, in real estate;
  in personal property;
  immigration of, regulated;
  naturalization of;
  alien and sedition laws;
  libel against the government, suits for;
  general scheme of our legislation concerning;
  laborers may not be specially taxed;
  may be forbidden to hold lands. 
Alienation of affections, discussion of suit for. 
Allowable socialism (see Socialism). 
American legislation in general, chapter concerning, chapter VI. 
Anarchism (see Socialism),
  definition of;
  advocating of, made a felony
Anarchists,
  legislation against;
  naturalization of;
  may be denied immigration. 
Anglo-Saxon law (see Law),
  re-establishment of, chapter concerning, chapter III;
  was customary law;
  method of enforcing;
  its nature, loss, and restoration. 
Anglo-Saxon legislation (see also Legislation). 
Anti-truck laws.